Adriano Ferraresi

Associate Professor

Department of Interpreting and Translation

Academic discipline: L-LIN/12 Language and Translation - English

Director of Second Cycle Degree in Specialized translation

Collaborations

Collaboration with:: CHEU-lex project
Country:: Switzerland
Description:: Technical coordinator of CHEU-lex (2019-2022), a project funded by the Ernest Boninchi Foundation, coordinated by Prof. Annarita Felici (University of Geneva). The aim of the project was that of creating a parallel and comparable corpus of Swiss and European Union legislation.

Collaboration with:: Eurolect observatory
Country:: Italy
Description:: Member of the Eurolect Observatory (2017-today), an international partnership focusing on the study of Eurolects, specialized varieties of European legal languages. The group, coordinated by Laura Mori (Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma) includes members from 13 European universities.

Collaboration with:: Multilingual Student Translation (MUST) project
Country:: Belgium
Description:: Member of the MUST project (2016-today), an international partnership working towards the construction of a large multilingual corpus of learners' translations. The group is coordinated by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and involves 32 universities from all over the world.

Collaboration with:: WaCky - The Web-As-Corpus Kool Yinitiative
Country:: Italy
Description:: Member of the WaCky group (2008-2015), whose goal was to create large reference corpora for different European languages, including English, French and Italian. The group, coordinated by Prof. Marco Baroni (Pompeu Fabra University) and Prof. Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) included 21 members from 11 research institutions and 3 companies based in Italy and abroad.