Biennial Conference
ATISA XII Conference Workshops
ATISA will host two pre-conference workshops on Friday, April 10, 2026.
Information about each workshop is available below.
"AI for Corpus Compilation and Analysis in Translation Studies"
Hussein Abu-Rayyash
This hands on, code light workshop will introduce translation studies researchers to AI-assisted tools for corpus creation and analysis. AI methods will be compared with traditional corpus tools (e.g., concordancers) and methods (e.g., keyword/dispersion and collocation analyses) to show how they might complement, not replace, them. Participants will have the opportunity to build and analyze small corpora with AI assisted tools, using ready made templates and click to run notebooks. Participants can choose between a monolingual track (e.g., reception/criticism, language industry discourse, genre/register) or a bilingual track (translation pairs, alignment, terminology, strategies). Attendees will compile or select data, clean and validate it, and run analyses such as terminology mining, semantic similarity, and translator style probes. No paid APIs are required, and pre scraped datasets are provided; participants may also bring short, legally shareable texts. The workshop closes with a short study design plan and an ethics checklist (robots.txt, licensing, attribution, privacy). Participants leave with a small corpus, a templated workflow, and a simple, configurable AI module tailored to their topic or language pair.
"Working in and with Archives"
Brian James Baer and Michelle Woods
Recent research trajectories in the field of Translation and Intepreting Studies, from complex systems to translator studies, highlight the unique perspectives made available through archives. This workshop is designed for doctoral students and early career scholars in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies interested in pursuing archival research. The workshop will cover major themes, both conceptual and practical, such as: theorizing the archive; the affective dimension of archival research; the contributions and limitations of archival research; curated vs. uncurated archives; deciphering archival materials; accessing archival materials (permissions); scheduling appointments and requesting materials beforehand; protocols for working in archives; and reproducing and citing archival materials. The conference organizers will share their own experiences in archives while offering opportunities to interact with archival materials.