Speaker
CHAN Sin-wai, St. Francis University, Hong Kong
Title
Technology for Translating, Visualizing, and Generating Chinese Recipes
Abstract
This talk discusses issues relating to the construction of a textual system that automatically renders Chinese recipes into English (TransRecipe), a visual system that translates recipes into pictures and videos (VisualRecipe), and a generative system that produces recipes from videos (GenRecipe).
About the speaker
Chan Sin-wai is Professor-cum-Dean of Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong. He was formerly Professor of the School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was also Director of the Master of Arts in the Computer-aided Translation Programme and Director of the Centre for Translation Technology. His teaching and research interests lie mainly in the areas of translation studies, translation technology, and bilingual lexicography. He is the Chief Editor of Journal of Translation Technology, published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Editor of International Journal of Techno-Humanities. He has published more than 95 academic books in 116 volumes to date, mainly scholarly monographs, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and translated works in different fields.