Rate My Professor Ester Leung

Leung's research interests lie in interpreting studies in general, with particular focus on legal and medical interpreting, employing action research approaches. Her employment at the University of Melbourne began on January 15, 2020. Key publications feature 'Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse' (14 Scopus citations, 9 Dimensions), 'Medical interpreting as an emerging profession in Hong Kong', 'A converted interpreting trainer's response', 'Chapter 3 What Has Machine Translation “Mis-Translated” about COVID-19? What “mistakes” can tell us about humanity that machines cannot?', and 'Assessing Non-autoregressive Alignment in Neural Machine Translation via Word Reordering'. She has contributed to international events such as the Second International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting, the LCNAU Eighth Biennial Colloquium, and a public discussion 'Interpreting the Past, Present and Future'. Her practical background informs her teaching and research, contributing to the field of translation and interpreting studies.