The IAL is pleased to present the fifth lecture in the annual Gregory M. Shreve Lecture Series in Translation Studies, instituted in honor of the IAL’s founding director. The series is made possible through the generosity of alumni, IAL faculty members, and friends of the IAL.
Sharon O’Brien, is Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City, Ireland. Her research focuses on the interaction between translators and technology (including Translation Memory and Machine Translation), post-editing, cognitive aspects of translation, quality evaluation, research methods, including eye tracking and keyboard logging, localisation and content authoring. She is the author of many articles on these topics and has authored and edited Cognitive Explorations of Translation (2011), Research Methodologies in Translation Studies (2013), and Post-editing of Machine Translation: Processes and Applications (2014).