Research
Areas of research and teaching
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Applied translation studies
Translation practice, translator training, translation technology.
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Corpus processing
Corpus linguistics within the translation process, Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, linguistic analysis of translation phenomena, critical discourse analysis, languages for special purposes, terminology.
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Digital multimedia
Audiovisual translation, translation and new technologies, computer-assisted translation tools, technology in education.
Resources
Open-access corpora and tools
Browser-based applications and corpora for translation research and teaching. No installation, no registration.
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Concordancer: loads a text and retrieves words and phrases in context, with frequencies and statistics.
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Sentence-level alignment of source text and translation, for parallel corpora and translation memories.
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Trilingual dictionary of stock-exchange terminology (English, French, Greek) with authentic corpus examples, from EU legislation to investor discourse, searchable and filterable by register and subject field.
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secorpus · Greek Stock Exchange Corpus
Parallel Greek-French corpus of EU stock-exchange legislation (819 documents, 6.65 million Greek words, 2001–2021), compiled from DGT-TM and EUR-Lex. In-browser query interface: KWIC concordances, collocations, frequency distributions, subcorpora. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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Parallel French-Greek corpus with search engine, alignment tool, automatic exercise generation and a library of copyright-free texts. Ongoing collaboration with Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, University of Cyprus.
Publications
Selected publications
- 2026Tziafa, E., & Pantazara, M. Teaching Translation with AI Tools Using Short-Form Texts: Some Preliminary Methodological Issues. In A. Gil Casadomet & M. Tordesillas (Eds.), Recherches en sciences du langage / Research in Language Sciences (pp. 125–150). Berlin: Peter Lang. DOI
- 2023Krimpas, P. G., Loupaki, E., Pantazara, M., & Tziafa, E. Terminology Issues in Contemporary Translation Practice: Interdisciplinary Approaches [in Greek]. Kallipos+ Open Academic Editions. Author of chapters 6 and 10. Open access
- 2020Kakoyianni-Doa, F., & Tziafa, E. Overview of the SOURCe Project as an Open Educational Resource. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 33, 124–142. DOI
- 2018Pantazara, M., & Tziafa, E. Les termes de la crise économique grecque dans les corpus [in French]. Meta, 63(3), 739–765. Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal. DOI
- 2018Tziafa, E., Pantazara, M., Tsaknaki, O., & Alexandri, K. A Greek Translational Corpus: Discourse of Translation and on Translation. In Ł. Bogucki, P. Pietrzak & M. Kornacki (Eds.), Understanding Translator Education (pp. 139–153). Peter Lang. DOI
- 2016Tziafa, E. Language resources to be used in teaching of LSP and specialised translation: Annual Reports in the banking sector as ad-hoc parallel and comparable corpora, in English, French and Greek. International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication, 4(1), 139–149. DOI
Networks
Projects and collaborations
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CIVIS European University Alliance
Contribution to the micro-credential “Transversal Competences for PhD Candidates and Early-Stage Researchers” (theme: Scientific Communication and Linguistic Corpora), with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Bucharest, University of Sfax and Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
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Multilingual Student Translation (MUST) corpus
Contribution to the Greek-French component of the learner translation corpus coordinated by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer, Université catholique de Louvain.
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Alliance Internationale des Universités Méditerranéennes Francophones (AIME)
Participation in the digital humanities strand. NKUA is a founding member of the alliance.
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Learned societies
Vice-President of the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies (2026–2028); Alternate member of the Board of the Hellenic Society for Terminology (ELETO).
