National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Eleni Tziafa

Associate Professor of Translation

Translation, Corpus Processing and Digital Multimedia

Department of French Language and Literature, School of Philosophy

Research and teaching at the intersection of translation theory and practice, corpus linguistics and digital technologies. Current work addresses specialised corpora, terminology, audiovisual translation, and the use of Large Language Models in translator training.

Research

Areas of research and teaching

  • Applied translation studies

    Translation practice, translator training, translation technology.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Concordia

    Concordancer: loads a text and retrieves words and phrases in context, with frequencies and statistics.

  • Alinia

    Sentence-level alignment of source text and translation, for parallel corpora and translation memories.

  • Selexicon

    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.

  • 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.

  • SOURCe

    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

The complete catalogue of journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and conference papers is available on the publications page (in Greek).

Networks

Projects and collaborations

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Alliance Internationale des Universités Méditerranéennes Francophones (AIME)

    Participation in the digital humanities strand. NKUA is a founding member of the alliance.

  • 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).