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Talking the Talk but Not Walking the Walk: Exploring the Influence of Veganism and Legal Proceedings on Linguistic Practices in English (research poster)
Is the plant-based food movement changing our language? This study used the News On the Web corpus to investigate whether legislation to replace terms such as ‘soy milk’ or ‘veggie burger’ with ‘plant-based beverage’ or ‘veggie disc’ is effective.…
Institutional Social Media in the Language Industry: Are They Worth the Effort? (research poster)
We know that social media is popular for personal use, but is it worth the effort for institutions? Taking the Government of Canada Translation Bureau’s “Our Languages” blog as an example, this project investigates the level of public engagement – et…
More than Meets the Eye: Using Machine Translation to Evaluate Language Policy Compliance (research poster)
There’s more to machine translation than meets the eye! The CRTC mandates the use of plain language in communications between mobile service providers and customers. This study repurposes a machine translation system as a plain language checker to…
