Silvia Hansen‑Schirra is a full professor of English linguistics and translation studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim, Germany. As fellow of the Gutenberg Research College she is the director of the Translation&Cognition (TRACO) Center in Germersheim and co-editor of the online book series "Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing " (http://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tmnlp). Her main research interests include empirical translation studies, translation process research, specialized communication, intralingual translation, machine translation, multimedia translation, barrier-free communication.