33.3802, Confs: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation/United Kingdom

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Subject: 33.3802, Confs: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation/United Kingdom

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:37:22
From: Constantin Orasan [c.orasan at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Convergence: Human-Machine Integration in Translation and Interpreting

 
Convergence: Human-Machine Integration in Translation and Interpreting 
Short Title: Convergence 2023 

Date: 01-Feb-2023 - 03-Feb-2023 
Location: Guildford, United Kingdom 
Contact: Constantin Orasan 
Contact Email: c.orasan at surrey.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Meeting Description: 

This year, the University of Surrey’s Centre for Translation Studies
celebrates its 40th anniversary since its foundation. To mark this occasion,
and as a natural progression from the Convergence lecture series, CTS is proud
to announce its first Convergence conference. This conference is an
opportunity to bring together innovative research that reflects on the
complexity of contexts and the effects of the use of digital and AI-driven
technologies in translation and interpreting. 

In a globalised society and economy, few people remain unaffected by the
design and delivery of language services. As the demand for these services
increases, the use of technologies adds new layers of complexity to the
processes of translation and interpreting, calling for innovative and adaptive
multidisciplinary approaches. The ‘technological turn’ in translation and
interpreting requires all stakeholders to develop a better understanding of
the impact and potential of translation and interpreting technologies, and of
the products and services they facilitate. This understanding will help
mitigate obstacles and barriers, driving genuine innovation that harnesses the
full potential of the digital transformation and the ‘AI revolution’. 

The broad aim of the Convergence conference is to promote responsible and
smart integration of the capabilities of human agents and machines in the
fields of translation and interpreting, embedded in a multidisciplinary
framework that enables the generation of new theoretical perspectives and
practices of research. Our point of focus is the integration of research on
human, machine-assisted, semi-automated, and fully automated translation and
interpreting workflows, exploring the crucial role each workflow can play in
supporting effective global and local communication, and in building a
sustainable society. 

The conference will consist of a series of individually tailored thematic
sessions, each bringing together experts who will discuss innovative
perspectives, new empirical approaches, and an analysis of use cases for the
most advanced language technologies. The planned themes of the conference are:

- Embracing the complexity: hybrid practices for interlingual communication in
real time 
- Convergence and collaboration in translation and research 
- Remote interpreting: towards a convergent research agenda
- Translation of creative content and technology 
- Natural language processing augmenting translation and interpreting 
- Widening media accessibility in the digital age  
- Reducing language barriers in mental healthcare for refugees and other
migrants
- Bringing together corpus linguistics in translation studies and machine
translation
 






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