Violeta Seretan

Email: violeta.seretan@unige.ch; tel. (+41) 22 379 8683; fax (+41) 22 379 8689
Department of Translation Technology
University of Geneva
40 bd. du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Violeta Seretan is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Translation Technology of the University of Geneva. Her current research is in the area of machine translation, with a specific focus on evaluating pre-editing and post-editing strategies for improving the translation of user-generated content. She co-directs the ACCEPT European project, the goal of which is to bring machine translation closer to user communities. She is more generally interested in computational linguistics, information extraction, computational lexicography and translation aids. Previously, she conducted research on text simplification and text summarization at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation of the University of Edinburgh. Before that, she worked on rule-based machine translation and multilingual parsing as a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Language Technology Laboratory of the University of Geneva. She received her PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Geneva in 2008. Her doctoral research concerned the interrelation between phraseology, parsing and translation, a topic on which she presented and published extensively. Her doctoral work has been awarded the University of Geneva Latsis Prize in 2010.