INTERNSHIP

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
Russian

DESCRIPTION:
This follows the annual developments of the international competition Kul'turnyj Most (Cultural Bridge), in its fourth season in 2021, which involves bilingual Russian-speaking children, residing in Italy, attending Russian schools of supplementary education. As from 2020/2021, Russian language students at LILEC can take part in creating parallel corpora for the purpose of investigating translation issues applied to literary texts for children, translated by the competition participants. The texts proposed to the contest participants and their respective translations are online, available for free access on the contest website https://www.papmambook.ru/contests/.
    
AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
The internship involves two steps:
- The first involves manual alignment of texts for the creation of the parallel Russian-Italian corpora: the corpus of Russian texts and the corpus of translations of bilingual children taking part in the competition.
- The second involves expanding the corpus to the other second languages (Spanish, French, English).
The first step was achieved with the creation of the parallel Russian-Italian corpus (Perotto KM Global Russian, Perotto KM Global, Italian), which can be accessed on the Sketch Engine platform. Five students have been working on it. The second step is in progress: one student has worked on creating the Russian-Spanish corpus (Perotto KM Russian, Spanish, already available on SE) and another is working on creating the Russian-French corpus. The material is also available for ad hoc dissertation development.
The project aims to investigate the problems and translation difficulties that characterize the translation of bilingual speakers and the translation of students of Russian as L2. The years of collaboration on the Kulturnyj most project have shown that translation as an activity of language acquisition in the bilingual speaker is insufficiently studied, and translation skills in the process of L2 language acquisition are not subject to assessment, as is usually the case with other active and passive language skills."

OPEN TO:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA X
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
multilingual (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, French)

DESCRIPTION:
The KIParla corpus of spoken Italian is an innovative resource available free of charge to all those working on spoken Italian. Its main feature is that it contains samples of various types of observable interaction in university settings, particularly lectures, student receptions, exams, free conversation among students, and semi-structured interviews with students. The KIParla corpus consists of two modules (KIP and ParlaTO) and a third one will soon also be starting (ParlaBO)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
The internship consists of 3 different types of activities plus a side activity of focusing on foreign languages in the city of Bologna:
1. Field data collection (Italian and foreign languages in the city of Bologna): interns, individually or in groups, will collect speech data, identifying suitable communicative situations and subjects to be involved in recordings
2. Transcription of speech: interns will take part in transcribing interviews according to the Jefferson system, applied to Italian and foreign languages
3. Preparation of data for automatic processing: interns will prepare the transcribed interviews for input on the NoSketchEngine platform, handle data encoding in XML format with the help of editors (Oxygen), and if necessary liaise with technical staff for data uploading
4. Focus on foreign languages in the city of Bologna: in-depth analyses of individual languages: interns will carry out in-depth analyses of individual languages, which will vary in relation to their skills and the migration languages present in the data; they will make use of various language resources and speech corpora for the languages in question, both to monitor the use of specific constructions and to identify contact phenomena in the system and in the discourse.

The internship will provide highly interdisciplinary and applied skills that can be usefully employed in the following areas of work:
- Translation for dubbing and subtitling
- Conducting surveys and interviews for private agencies
- Use of language data for commercial purposes (data mining, sentiment analysis, ...)
- Automated processing of language data
- Construction and management of language databases
- In-depth knowledge and use of software in the digital humanities field

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE:
ONGOING

LANGUAGES:
MULTILINGUAL

DESCRIPTION:
The Experimental Laboratory of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) is a research laboratory set up thanks to the MIUR Departments of Excellence Initiative (L. 232 of 01/12/2016).

The Laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software equipment for experimental, computational and applied research in the fields of linguistics, translation and cultural studies, and more generally Digital Humanities, including applied to literature and philology.

The purpose of the Experimental Laboratory is to assist members of the LILEC Department in their research and to promote the creation of digital resources at the Department. The Laboratory provides researchers with the necessary tools for a variety of purposes, including:

- the collection, processing and analysis of corpora of oral, written and digital texts;
- the empirical-experimental study of language and text/discourse in all its manifestations;
- the critical digital edition of manuscript texts and the marking up of texts;
- the creation of databases for the synchronic and diachronic study of texts;
- the modeling and visualization of language and bibliographical data;
- the extraction of data from the Web and parallel translation corpora for the development of specialized multilingual dictionaries.

The Lab also organizes training events that aim to equip LILEC members with theoretical-practical (inter)disciplinary know-how in their areas of expertise, promoting broad methodological reflection on the diversity of linguistic and textual data. (https://site.unibo.it/laboratorio-sperimentale/it/tirocinio

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
Acquisition of applicative and multidisciplinary skills related to the collection, management, annotation and analysis of language data, useful both in the field of research in (computer-)humanities and in the language industry./ Elicitation and collection of language data (text, audio and video), use of advanced software for computer processing of language data.

OPEN TO:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
multilingual

DESCRIPTION:
Annotation of a parallel corpus in Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Russian and Spanish with argument structures and semantic disambiguation of predicates. Topics: Semantic Role Labeling, Lexical Substitution, Entity Linking, Correction of optical character recognition errors. Takes place at the Experimental Laboratory (https://site.unibo.it/laboratorio-sperimentale/it/tirocinio)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
The educational objectives of the internship are multifaceted: the internship will bring people into contact with the profession of annotators and data linguists by offering the opportunity to use advanced software for automatic processing of language data and manage language data for archival and subsequent research purposes.

OPEN TO:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP no
LM LCIS no
LM LSC no

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
French Spanish English Russian

DESCRIPTION:
The research project Multilingual Lexicon of Cultural Heritage (LBC - CeSLiC), launched in 2013, aims to promote the realization of studies, research, scientific events and cultural events focused on the lexicon of the artistic heritage of the city of Florence, which is considered a model of the Italian art city. The main goal of the project, part of the current stage of development of Digital Humanities, is the creation of a corpus-based multilingual dictionary of the cultural heritage lexicon in electronic format. https://site.unibo.it/[…]/opportunita-di-tirocinio

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
CeSLiC projects "Lexicon Cultural Heritage - LBC" and "UNICITTÁ", updating "UNICITTÁ" project website.
Creation of corpora of texts in English or French or Spanish or Russian, related to the artistic and cultural heritage of the Emilia Romagna region. Bibliographic research and editing of texts for the construction of the aforementioned corpora.

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP no
LM LCIS no
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
English

DESCRIPTION:
CISR aims to promote, support, and coordinate activities of academic training and collaboration, scholarly research, and interdisciplinary documentation on Romanticism. The Center intends to promote theoretical, literary, historical, and linguistic-formal investigations as well as to make use of interdisciplinary tools to address the influences of Romanticism on aesthetics, customs, and cultural movements subsequent to the period in question up to contemporary times. In addition to cataloging research material on Romanticism, with a focus on sources, genres, themes, forms, and languages, the Center's goal is specific analysis of issues of class, gender, social change, and historical context. The Center also aims to encourage researchers belonging to various disciplinary areas and institutions, to encourage initiatives on a local, national and international scale, and finally to promote both individual specialized research and group projects. https://site.unibo.it/cisr/it/tirocinio

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
LT: Updating the Center's web page, translation and editing. Organization of seminars and study days. LM: Editing, translation of literary and non-literary texts, computer support for the CISR website.

open to
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA no
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS no
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
French

DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of the Center is to develop research initiatives in the various fields of French-speaking culture in Canada, with special emphasis on Quebec language and literature. The Center also promotes the collection and exchange of documentation, information and research materials; organizes, also in collaboration with other centers and institutions, international conferences, seminars and symposia, publishing their scientific results; and translates and disseminates important texts of Quebec literature. (http://www.lilec.it/cisq/)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
Contribute to the Center's projects and research, disseminate cultural events and conferences.
Practice and improve French language and support the Quebec exchange reader.

open to
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA no
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
English, French, Spanish

DESCRIPTION:
Knowledge of postcolonial literatures (Anglophone or Francophone or Spanish-speaking) or North American literatures required.
          
AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
CLOPEX center management, library inventory and mail management, skills in updating web pages.

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA no
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS no
LM LSC no

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
French, Dutch

DESCRIPTION:
CSLEBELF aims to develop research in the field of French-speaking Belgian literature through activities such as: organizing international conferences, publishing conference proceedings, organizing exhibitions and film retrospectives, publishing Italian translations of French-speaking Belgian works, creating library collections of original and critical works concerning French-speaking Belgian literature (https://centri.unibo.it/centrobelga/en)
          
AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
for French: working remotely on manuscripts in order to become familiar with philological editing. Manuscript transcription, annotation. in-presence website content management and organization of Belgian center activities
for Dutch: collaboration on translation of articles from Dutch, revision of translations of poetry from Dutch, Contacts with Dutch and Flemish publishers

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
English, Italian

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
Multimedia editorial work on project sites "Performigrations," "canadausa.net," "wetell"; organization of WETELL summer school and preparation of multimedia materials for MOOCs.
Managing correspondence, social media packages (twitter, facebook, instagram), promoting research project activities.

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
French

DESCRIPTION:
The journal "Francophonie" is a literary journal published twice a year with the contribution of LILEC, dedicated to European and non-European literatures for which the French language is the medium of expression. (http://www.lilec.it/francofonia/)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
Learning the use of computer, typographical and editorial tools to support editing activities.
Promoting the journal of studies and research on French-language literatures "Francophonie."

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA no
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS no
LM LSC no

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES:
Portuguese, Spanish

DESCRIPTION:
"Confluences" is an open access journal focusing on Ibero-American studies in the humanities and social sciences. The journal reflects an interdisciplinary perspective and brings together a focus on different cultures from the American Continent, the Iberian world, and other Portuguese and Spanish-speaking regions within the humanities and social sciences. The Journal aims to combine possible intersections between anthropology, literature, sociology, history and critical theory. In its more than ten years of existence, it has focused on the idea that Portuguese and Spanish language cultures are a platform for original situated observation of the complex processes of the contemporary, the articulations of power, and the consequences of modernities constructed from a non-neutral historical plane. Confluences intends to reflect and reflect these views, to take critical positions as well as to contribute to the dissemination and construction of alternative epistemologies. (https://confluenze.unibo.it/)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
managing communication with the authors/editors of the journal for the stages following the selection of articles to be published and with the reviewers of the journal; managing the journal's social pages for communication and dissemination of the journal's editorial news and planned activities (call for papers, special issues, dossiers, etc.); advanced editing of text files.

open to:
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: ongoing

LANGUAGES
French Spanish English italiano

DESCRIPTION:
In order to highlight the evolution of Europe's musical heritage in space and time, the EU-funded Polyphony project will develop a number of tools to create a comprehensive computational knowledge resource from musical heritage sources. Among the themes touched upon will be the cross-border transition of musical genres, the experience of music in childhood, and the tracing of musical ideas through musicians' encounters in history. Ten pilot trials, devoted to topics such as the heritage of historic bells and organs and the classification of notated polyphonic music, will enable the development of the project's digital ecosystem through ongoing validation of technologies. (https://polifonia-project.eu/)

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
contribute to the creation of a multilingual music glossary through lexicographic and terminology research;
learn about tools related to text digitization and for optical character recognition; contribute to the design and construction of a specialized corpus in one of the languages of the internship (English, Spanish, French, Italian)
    
OPEN TO
LT LLS YES
LT LMCA YES
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES

STATE: closed (2021)

LANGUAGES:
Italian

DESCRIPTION:
Undergraduate Teaching of Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners aimed at Masters' students. Interns take part in a wide range of activities at the different sites of the C.L.A. (Bologna and Romagna sites): observation and participation in activities carried out in the classroom and on teaching platforms; seminar meetings of a theoretical and practical nature linked to classroom observation; individual in-depth study assignments; management and guided production of interventions, lectures and printed and digital teaching materials.
    

AIMS/ACTIVITIES:
Becoming familiar with L2 Italian language teaching in a university context.
Learning to modulate communication according to the language skills of the participants.
    
OPEN TO:
LT LLS no
LT LMCA no
LM LMCP YES
LM LCIS YES
LM LSC YES