Select Publications
Conference Presentations
, 2012, 'Eye Tracking as a Research Tool: Understanding and Application', presented at The 8th International Post-graduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, Dublin, Ireland, 08 November 2012 - 08 November 2012
, 2012, 'Taking Statistical Machine Translation to the Student Translator', presented at The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translations in the Americas, San Diego, California, USA, 31 October 2012 - 31 October 2012
, 2012, 'A User-Based Usability Assessment of Raw Machine Translated Technical Instructions', presented at The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translations in the Americas, San Diego, California, USA, 30 October 2012 - 30 October 2012
, 2012, 'Investigating the Usability of Machine-translated Texts via Eye Tracking', presented at EyeTrackBehavior 2012: 2nd Tobii Eye Tracking Conference on Behavioural Research, Leuven, Belgium, 10 October 2012 - 10 October 2012
, 2012, 'Reading and Comprehension of Controlled Machine-Translated Texts', presented at The Fourth Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Belfast, United Kingdom, 24 July 2012 - 24 July 2012
, 2012, 'Investigating the Relationship between Autism Spectrum Disorders and Violent Offending', presented at The British Psychological Society Northern Ireland Branch Annual Conference, Fermanagh, United Kingdom, 13 May 2012 - 13 May 2012
, 2012, 'Sleep, Stress, and Moderating Factors', presented at The 9th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom, 04 April 2012 - 04 April 2012
, 2012, 'An Experiential Analysis of Translation Technology Labs', presented at The 2nd Annual Conference of Education and Humanities, Dublin, Ireland, 30 March 2012 - 30 March 2012
, 2012, 'Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Violent Offenders', presented at Health Service Executive Academic Forum, Dublin, Ireland, 18 January 2012 - 18 January 2012
, 2012, 'How Are We Sleeping? Sleep, Stress, and Moderating factors: A Case of Professionals in Ireland', presented at Health Service Executive Academic Forum, Dublin, Ireland, 18 January 2012 - 18 January 2012
, 2011, 'Using Controlled Language to Improve Statistical Machine Translation', presented at Dublin Innovation Festival, Dublin, Ireland, 16 November 2011 - 16 November 2011
, 2011, 'Cognitive Explorations of Think-Aloud Protocols: Insights from Eye Tracking', presented at School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies Research Showcase, Dublin, Ireland, 09 November 2011 - 09 November 2011
, 2011, 'Investigating the Effects of Controlled Language on the Reading and Comprehension of Machine Translated Texts: A Mixed-Methods Approach using Eye Tracking', presented at Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminars, Dublin, Ireland, 01 June 2011 - 01 June 2011
, 2011, 'Measuring the Impact of Controlled Language on Machine Translation via Readability and Comprehensibility', presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 21, Ghent, Netherlands, 11 February 2011 - 11 February 2011
, 2010, 'Enhancing the experience of Translation Technology Labs', presented at The 6th International Post-graduate Conference in Translation & Interpreting, Manchester, United Kingdom, 22 September 2010 - 22 September 2010
, 2010, 'Improving Machine Translation Output with Controlled Language', presented at Annual Science Foundation Ireland Review, Dublin, Ireland, 11 July 2010 - 11 July 2010
, 2009, 'Readability and Controlled Language in User-Based Machine Translation Evaluation and Eye-Tracking', presented at The 5th International Post-graduate Conference in Translation & Interpreting, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 22 November 2009 - 22 November 2009
, 2009, 'Can Machine Translation Output be Evaluated through Eye Tracking?', presented at Humanities & Social Sciences Post-Graduate Showcase, Dublin, Ireland, 17 October 2009 - 17 October 2009
, 2009, 'Can Machine Translation Output be Evaluated through Eye Tracking?', presented at Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 28 August 2009 - 28 August 2009
Reports
, 2018, Interpreter presence, mode, and language in investigative interviews
, 2015, NAATI Translator Testing Using Computers, National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Canberra, ACT, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.1.3502.1844
, 2013, Mapping the Industry I: Findings on Translation Technologies and Quality Assessment, QTLaunchPad EC Project, http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/sites/default/files/Version_Participants_Final.pdf
, 2013, Quality Metrics for Human and Machine Translation, QTLaunchPad EC Project, http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/system/files/deliverables/D6.6.1%20QTLP%20Workshop%20on%20Quality%20Metrics%20for%20Human%20and%20Machine%20Translation.pdf
, 2013, Research Innovation Application Scenarios, QTLaunchPad EC Project, http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/system/files/deliverables/D6.7.1%20QTLP%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Innovation%20Application%20Scenarios.pdf
, 2013, Definition of Interfaces, http://www.qt21.eu/, http://www.qt21.eu/
, 2013, Definition of Machine Translation and Evaluation Workflows, http://www.qt21.eu/, http://www.qt21.eu/
Theses / Dissertations
, 2025, Machine translation in translator training: Its impact on students’ translation processes and products, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/31232
, 2025, Subtitles and mind wandering in online learning: A mixed-methods experimental study, March 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/31290
, 2020, Investigating the effects of translation strategies on interlingual subtitle processing: A survey-based study of domestication versus foreignization of idioms, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/3961
, 2012, Investigating the effects of controlled language on the reading and comprehension of machine-translated texts: A mixed-methods approach using eye tracking, Dublin City University, http://doras.dcu.ie/16805/
, 2011, Sleep, stress, and their moderators, Dublin Business School
, 2008, Pauses as indicators of cognitive effort in post-editing, Dublin City University
Media
, 2018, Interview on audio-visual translation, http://www.jatjournal.org/index.php/jat
, 2018, Language technology and language processing: Breaking barriers and making connections, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcFYEkjpqQ
, 2018, Machine-generated subtitles and captions: New media, new challenges, and new opportunities, The Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, https://ausit.org/AUSIT/Publications/In_Touch_Magazine.aspx
, 2018, New and not-so-new approaches to the assessment of quality in machine translation, The Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, https://ausit.org/AUSIT/Publications/In_Touch_Magazine.aspx
, 2017, An introduction to machine translation, in 763 words!, The Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, https://ausit.org/AUSIT/Publications/In_Touch_Magazine.aspx
, 2015, Interview on language technology, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOeWsTbBns
, 2013, Which approach to human translation quality evaluation and why?, http://www.gala-global.org/node/86069
, 2013, The value of effective training in translation and localization, http://www.gala-global.org/node/84770
, 2013, Current machine translation cannot meet quality needs, http://www.gala-global.org/node/79346
, 2013, Only 15% of translation professionals are satisfied with their QA Process: 77% demand high-quality machine translation, https://www.gala-global.org/node/82233
Preprints
, 2026, A decade of Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) in Australian higher education: skills, accountability, and the limits of national indicators, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7457158
, 2026, Embedding and Surfacing Skills in Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6185098
, 2026, Skills taxonomies in higher education, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6185078
, 2026, Students' Perceptions of Enduring Skills and Skill Self-efficacy: A Mixed-methods Study in Higher Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6229318