Machine Translation and Global Research: Towards Improved Machine Translation Literacy in the Scholarly Community Tapa dura -

Lynne Bowker holds a PhD in Language Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom. She is a full professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where she holds a cross-appointment between the School of Translation and Interpretation and the School of Information Studies. She is the author of Computer-Aided Translation Technology (2002, University of Ottawa Press) and co-author, with Jennifer Pearson, of Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora (2002, Routledge). Her research has been recognized with awards from the Association for Information Science & Technology, the Association for Library and Information Science Education, the Canadian Association for Information Science, and the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. Jairo Buitrago Ciro holds an ALA-accredited Master of Information Studies from the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has previously worked as an academic librarian at the Universit du Qubec en Outaouais in Canada, and as the director of the library at the Universidad Simn Bolvar in Colombia. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Electronic Business at the University of Ottawa.