Translation in the Artificial Intelligence Era: The Wind of Change is Blowing

Presentation
AI in Technical Communication

04. June
10:30 - 11:10 AM (CEST)
E.21 Event Space

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Professor Dr Ruslan Mitkov
- Lancaster University

The speech will review the state of the art of translation technology and will discuss how the latest advances of Artificial Intelligence will impact the future of translation and more broadly, language professions. The presentation will start with a brief snapshot in time briefly outlining the history of machine translation and translation tools, and commenting how first statistical and then neural machine translation took off. The talk will then proceed to comment on the impact recent deep learning and large language models have on the performance of translation technology and natural language processing.

Takeaways

On the basis of the latest developments the speaker will attempt to predict how the profession and business of translation will evolve in the future.

Prior knowledge

The presentation is very easy to follow so no prior knowledge is needed.

Speaker

Professor Dr Ruslan Mitkov

Lancaster University

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Biography

Professor of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University

Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering

Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa/Professor Honoris Causa three times

Director of the Erasmus Mundus Programme on Technology for Translation and Interpreting (EM TTI)

Executive Editor of the journal ‘Natural Language Processing’ (Cambridge University Press)

Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics (Oxford University Press)

Keynote speaker at more than 230 international conferences

Chair of more than 70 international conferences

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