Coordinator: SudTitles s.r.l., Palermo, Italy
Research team members at CPU Nitra: doc. PhDr. Andrej Zahorák, PhD., PhDr. Jana Ukušová, PhD., Mgr. Eva Verebová, Mgr. Romana Jurigová, Mgr. Romana Chantal Čuláková, Mgr. Diana Jankovičová, Ing. Henrieta Cherid
Annotation: The aim of the project is to create a comprehensive framework for interlingual subtitling, with a focus on including sign languages as source languages. The main objectives include: analyzing the linguistic and technical differences between subtitling spoken languages and subtitling sign languages; refining guidelines for subtitling sign languages as full-fledged languages with their own rules and structures; developing the skills of Deaf professionals needed to subtitle videos in sign languages; sharing specific know-how and expertise on subtitling and sign languages; providing training in sign language subtitling through a short course; disseminating results at conferences and through open-source materials available to everyone. Through these objectives, we aim to bridge communication gaps, increase accessibility, and contribute to the recognition of sign language subtitlers in the context of audiovisual accessibility.

Research team members from FA CPU in Nitra: doc. Mgr. Monika Šavelová, PhD., Mgr. Zuzana Civáňová, PhD., doc. Mgr. Fabiano Gritti, PhD., Mgr. Karin Kopasová, doc. PhDr. Natália Rusnáková, PhD., Mgr. Erzsébet Szabó, PhD.

Research team from FA CPU in Nitra: Mgr. Lenka Žitňanská

Project title: Mental HEALTH 4 ALL: Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe/MHEALTH4ALL
Partners: Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), University Of Surrey (UK), Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania), Stichting Gezondheid Allochtonen Nederland (The Netherlands), Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland), Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre (Slovakia), Università degli studi di Genova (Italy), Associatie Marokkaanse Artsen Nederland (The Netherlands), European Network For Public Service Interpreting And Translation, Stowarzyszenie na Rzecz Wspierania Psychiatrii Dzieci I Mlodziezy Vis-a-Vis

Duration: original duration 2 years (2012–2014)
Duration of students’ exchange programmes: 1 – 3 months
Duration of teachers’ exchange programmes: 7 – 10 days
Project number: CIII-SI-0711-01-1213TRANS – TRANSkulturelle Kommunikation und TRANSlation
The CEEPUS network currently consists of 18 universities from 11 countries. You can find more information about the project here.

Project title: Multilateral Academic Networks – OPTIMALE
Project number: 177295-LLP-1-2010-1-FR-ERASMUS-ENWA
Partners: 65 EU partners and 5 „Third Country“ partners from 31 countries
Optimising Professional Translator Training in a Multilingual Europe

Research team: doc. PaedDr. Oľga Wrede, PhD.

Research team: Erzsébet Szabó – Eva Spišiaková – Eva Stranovská – Anikó Ficzere – Ervín Weiss – Ivan Haringa
Annotation: The project is based on the current social needs for the promotion and development of reading skills in mother tongue and foreign language, in this case the teaching of German as a foreign language. The interest in reading and thus the development of reading skills in German language classes depends crucially on the texts used. The reading texts should be up-to-date and authentic, close to the target group, so that the content of the texts is interesting and appealing to them. At the same time, the texts used should be appropriate for the level of language proficiency. For these reasons, the relevance of the issue addressed in the project lies in the use of a digital online tool that allows keyword-based searches for texts on the desired, specific topics and language level. The digital online tool was developed as part of the LATILL project, which was led by the team of the Department of German as a Foreign and Second Language (Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache) at the University of Vienna. It retrieves texts on the basis of the language proficiency levels set out in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The tool is available on an online platform for German language teachers. The project will test the use of the developed digital online tool in cooperation with university departments in Austria and Slovakia and German language teachers in Austrian and Slovak schools, thus creating a new international cooperation based on the exchange and sharing of the experience of working with the digital online tool for selecting texts for reading and thus supporting the development of pupils’ reading skills as well as their motivation for reading texts.

Research team: PhDr. Ľuboš Török, PhD. – Máhrik, T. – Khan, A.
Partners: Toronto University

Leading institution: Department of German Language, Literature and Didactics, FE CU in Bratislava
Research team members from FA CPU in Nitra: Mgr. Lenka Žitňanská

Research team: doc. Mgr. Monika Šavelová, PhD., Mgr. Mária Koscelníková, PhD., Mgr. Matej Martinkovič, PhD.
Annotation: The submitted project is aimed at researching the transfer of taboo language as a specific aspect of audiovisual works into the Slovak language, focusing on the procedures and strategies used for its transfer. Based on Alsharhan’s (2020) definition, taboo language can be understood as language used to denote various taboos. In the Slovak context of audiovisual translation research, there are only few studies dealing with vulgarisms as one of the subtypes of taboo language. The present project has a much broader focus and its intention is to investigate taboo language as a complex and coherent linguistic phenomenon (swearwords, obscene words, vocabulary related to drugs, crime, pornography, sexual themes, physical violence, etc.). The aim of the project is to map the procedures and strategies used in selected audiovisual works at online platforms and to evaluate the adequacy of the procedures used based on the model of changes at the expressive level of the work, while taking into account other extratextual factors.

Leading institution: Department of Linguistics and Translatology, FAL, University of Economics in Bratislava
Research team members from FA CPU in Nitra: Mgr. Lenka Žitňanská
Annotation: The project is focused on the creation of terminology databases, on the didactic approach and on the popularization of the process of this creation, which results in two basic project goals. The first of them is the creation of two separate terminology databases for hunting terms and related fields for language pairs German – Slovak and English – Slovak. The second main goal is – within the didacticisation and popularization of the process of creating terminology databases – to create a set of tasks and/or exercises aimed at mediating the process of creating terminology databases in academic sphere and to present the possibilities of effective handling of them. The submitted project is an ongoing project, following the results of the solution of two implemented KEGA projects (KEGA Nr. 006TU Z-4/2020 and KEGA Nr. 030UKF-4/2013). The researchers, most of whom were involved in one of the initial projects, will use the knowledge and experience already gained to comprehensively grasp the issue to move it to a new dimension: The elaboration of additional terms in the database for the language pair German language – Slovak language is intended to provide recipients with a more numerous starting point for the process of translation and/or professional communication in a given professional field; the addition of the language pair English language – Slovak language aims at internationalization and presentation of project results within European terminology databases and the process of didacticisation and popularization is to ensure visibility of terminology databases among the general professional public (translators and experts in the field communicating also in foreign languages) and also the dissemination of the project results to the general public.

Research team: doc. PhDr. Andrej Zahorák, PhD., Mgr. Monika Šavelová, PhD., Mgr. Mária Koscelníková, PhD., Mgr. Matej Martinkovič, PhD.

Annotation: The present project is meant to contribute to the fields of translation and bilingual acquisition focusing on different cases of natural interpreting of several bilingual children. We will address the issue of bilingual competence in relationship to natural interpretation skills and metalinguistic skills in the participants. The results of the studies carried out within this project should shed light on the question whether bilingual children can become proficient interpreters without receiving formal training in interpretation regardless of the languages involved in the interpreting performance and of the directionality in which they interpret. In fact, there are no studies so far which have analyzed how children with Slovak and/or Czech languages as part of their linguistic background proceed when translating from one language to others. The level of natural interpreting and metalinguistic skills will be studies through the child’s interpretations and story-telling in different language directions.

Research team: doc. Mgr. Emília Perez, PhD., doc. Mgr. Soňa Hodáková, PhD., Mgr. Jana Ukušová, PhD., Mgr. Mária Koscelníková, PhD.

Research team: prof. PhDr. Daniela Müglová, CSc., doc. Mgr. Emília Perez, PhD., Mgr. Jana Ukušová, PhD.

Research team: Mgr. Tomáš Bánik, PhD. – Mgr. Ľubomír Benko – Mgr. Lucia Benková – doc. Mgr. Štefan Beňuš, PhD. – Mgr. Jana Boltižiar – Mgr. Beáta Ďuračková, PhD. – prof. PhDr. Juraj Glovňa, CSc. – Mgr. Ivana Horváthová – Mgr. Silvia Hvozdíková, PhD. – Mgr. Barbara Jakubičková – doc. PaedDr. Jozef Kapusta, PhD. – Mgr. Renáta Machová, PhD. – prof. PhDr. Daniela Müglová, CSc. – doc. RNDr. Michal Munk, PhD. – PhDr. Ľudmila Pánisová, PhD. – Mgr. Patrik Petráš, PhD. – RNDr. Ján Skalka, PhD. – doc. PaedDr. Eva Stranovská, PhD. – Mgr. Katarína Welnitzová, PhD. – PaedDr. Oľga Wrede, PhD. – prof. PhDr. Juraj Vaňko, CSc.

Research team: Mgr. Emília Perez, PhD., Mgr. Igor Tyšš, PhD., Mgr. Zuzana Jánošíková (PhD student), Mgr. Mária Koscelníková (PhD student), Mgr. Matej Martinkovič (PhD student)
Annotation: The aims of this inter- and even transdisciplinary project reflect the current developments in translation studies and issues in world literature and comparative literature. Moreover, the project has been designed to connect these discourses to what is currently going on in other fields of the humanities (philosophy, cultural history, sociology, oral history, etc.) and natural sciences (human geography, inferential statistics, ecology, etc.). The aims of the project are as follows: a) interpretation of significant translations in the Slovak cultural space (with the assessment of their canonical status); b) examination of culturally significant, yet less defining texts, i. e. educational, pragmatic or religious texts, which have not been thoroughly examined so far; c) examining the broad and still evolving field of audio (and/or) visual texts operating in the popular culture. Given the scope of the project’s aims and the research team’s expertise, it is only natural that the research focuses not only on the texts but also on the relevant personalities and institutions.

Research team: Ľubomír Benko – Jozef Kapusta – Michal Munk – Patrik Petráš – Juraj Glovňa – Andrej Zahorák – Jozef Štefčík – Oľga Wrede – Eva Stranovská – Igor Tyšš – Silvia Hvozdíková – Ľudmila Pánisová – Katarína Welnitzová – Edita Gromová – Mária Matiová – Valéria Švecová – Soňa Hodáková – prof. PhDr. Juraj Vaňko, CSc.
Annotation: The project deals with machine translation (MT) and its quality. It has a strong interdisciplinary character and it is a unique project in the given field of research not only in Slovakia, but worldwide. The aim of the project is to process the natural language in its entirety in MT from English and German into Slovak as the flective type of language. Three departments of CPU in Nitra – Department of Translation Studies, Department of Slovak Language and Department of Informatics – participate in the project.

Research team from CPU: Igor Tyšš
Annotation: The project examines facts, phenomena and personalities in translation activities in the Slovak cultural space and the forms of their functioning.

Research team from CPU: Edita Gromová – Soňa Hodáková – Andrej Zahorák
Annotation: The proposed project focuses on defining the specifics of subtitles to audiovisual works for the deaf recipients.

Research team from CPU: Michal Munk – Katarína Welnitzová – Peter Kopecký – Eva Stranovská – Martin Mačura – Jozef Kapusta – Martin Vozár – Peter Švec – Jaroslav Reichel – Ľudmila Pánisová – Ervín Weiss – Ľubomír Benko – Jozef Štefčík – Soňa Hodáková
Annotation: Evaluation of machine translation (MT) is of great importance to the scientist, commercial company or the user himself. There have been many propositions how to measure quality, some focusing on manual methods of evaluation (ME), others on the automatic methods (AE). Nobody has focused on MT of flective languages. In this project, we focus on the evaluation of MT between SVK and EN/DE/FR using the ME and AE in order to determine to what extent evaluators of the MT quality and ME and AE metric are consistent.

Annotation: The project reacts to the current requirements of the educational and professional practice in the field of terminological work. Terminology as a theoretical discipline and organised system of concepts and terms from a specific thematic field is gaining more and more importance with the development of a multilingual IT society. We build on the premise that specialised terminology represents the basis of knowledge development as well as specialised communication, while it significantly influences the quality of standardisation, and in the end, the quality of specialised communication. The project has an interdisciplinary nature and researchers come from the fields of linguistics and informatics.

Annotation: The project represents the continuation of the long-term systematic literary, cultural and historical translatological research in Slovakia. Thanks to the involvement of several leading Slovak translatologists, the synergy effect of generalizing translation thinking is created, which, in terms of viewing translation as part of the history of Slovak cultural space, seems to be indispensable.

Research team: prof. PhDr. Eva Malá, CSc., prof. PaedDr. Zdenka Gadušová, CSc., prof. Elena Zelenická, CSc., PhDr. Jana Harťanská, PhD., PhDr. Beáta Hockicková, PhD., Mgr. Michal Dvorecký, PhD., Mgr. D. Kanasová
Annotation: The aim of the project is to develop an innovative concept of foreign language education for pre-school and primary school teachers, including pedagogical documentation and its integration into real-life teaching process. Publishing of the methodical guide “Foreign language with children – creatively and playfully” and organization of workshops on the given topic.

Research team: doc. PhDr. Daniela Müglová, CSc. – PhDr. Milan Trizuliak – Mgr. Michal Dvorecký – Mgr. Monika Straňáková, PhD.
SOP LZ 2005/1 – 165, project code: 11230100192: 2006-2008

Research team members from FA CPU in Nitra: doc. Mgr. Monika Šavelová, PhD., Mgr. Zuzana Civáňová, PhD., Dr. Paolo Di Vico, PhD., doc. Mgr. Fabiano Gritti, PhD., doc. Mgr. Edita Hornáčková Klapicová, PhD., PhDr. Petra Kaizerová, PhD., Mgr. Andrea Kóňová, prof. Dr. Mirko Lampis, PhD., Mgr. Paula Píšová, PhD., doc. PhDr. Natália Rusnáková, PhD., doc. Mgr. Martin Štúr, PhD., doc. PhDr. Dušan Teplan, PhD., dr. Mirta Curkovic, PhD., Mgr. Karin Kopasová, doc. PhDr. Silvia Lauková, PhD., Mgr. Veronika Simanová

Research team: Mgr. Mária Koscelníková, PhD.

Coordinator: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, v. v. i.
Research team members from FA CPU in Nitra: doc. PhDr. Andrej Zahorák, PhD., PhDr. Ľudmila Pánisová, PhD.

Research team from CPU: doc. Mgr. Elena Ciprianová, PhD., doc. PhDr. Igor Hochel, PhD., doc. PhDr. Peter Kopecký, CSc., PhDr. Ľudmila Pánisová, PhD., doc. Mgr. Alena Smiešková, PhD., doc. Olga Ruda, PhD., Mgr. Igor Tyšš (doktorand), Mgr. Matúš Horváth (doktorand)
Annotation: The aim of the project is to research the topic of translating Slovak literary works into foreign languages, naimly English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian, and Romanian. Focus of the project is placed on quantitative and qualitative mapping of translated works, their translators, and publishers as well as the place and reflection of the translations in international literary context.

Research team: Eva Stranovská, Daša Munková, Jana Hučková, Silvia Hvozdíková, Soňa Hodáková, Daniela Muglová, Michal Munk, Zuzana Fráterová, Marta Popelková, Lucia Jechová, Mária Schmidtová, Eva Malá, Beáta Ďuračková, Emília Janecová, Ján Želonka, Ivan Sarmány- Schuller
Annotation: The project is aimed at screening the potentials of future teachers, subsequent growth, support, verification of effects and stability of linguistic intervention programme for future teachers of a foreign language and future teachers of other study fields (foreign language for academic purposes as a general basis) and their comparison. The research will be carried out in two streams: students who primarily study the language, linguists and students who study the language only secondarily or as a means of international cooperation in their field.

Annotation: The project is aimed at the identification and subsequent analysis of the form, content and expressive means of translation literature (mainly for children and young people) which comes to our market from the British and American culture. We mostly deal with the works of J. K. Rowling, T. Pratchett, M. Paver, E. Coifer, P. Pullman, A. Horowitz and others. Besides the linguistic and stylistic analysis of the original and its subsequent comparison with the translated Slovak version, the main goal of the project is to analyse those expressive means which ensured that fantasy prose becomes so successful worldwide, in terms of its publishing and number of readers. Expressive means and their interconnection with ontologically emphasised storylines are directly related to readers’ interpretation. Therefore, our main goal is to focus on those invariant text components which show the expected rate of recursion.

Research team: Prof. PhDr. Edita Gromová, CSc. (project representative for the departments of Ministry of Education)
Annotation: The project represents the continuation of literary, cultural and historical translatological research in Slovakia, exceptional in its focus and scope also in wider European contexts. The cultural and historical as well as theoretical reflection of the examined cultural and processed scientific experience focuses on the description, analysis and interpretation of literary translation and reflection.

Research team: prof. PhDr. Edita Gromová, CSc., prof. PhDr. Daniela Müglová, CSc., Mgr. Michal Dvorecký, PhD., Mgr. Beáta Ďuračková, PhD., Mgr. Soňa Kondelová, PhD., Soňa Kondelová, PhD.
Annotation: Analysis of the current state of translation and interpreting at Slovak universities, implementation of new trends in terms of current requirements related to the competence of translators and interpreters in united Europe. New concept of translation and interpreting studies at Slovak universities. Creation of modern university textbooks for specialised translation and interpreting.