Some UN Interpreters Push Back Hard Against Remote Interpretation
UN interpreters blame technology for the decline in their working conditions. But the benefits of technology are real and should not be ignored by the interpreting community.
Maria Stasimioti
Research Analyst at Slator. Based in Athens, Greece.
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NeTTT conference brings together academia, industry, and EU institutions, highlights new trends in translation and technology.
Ethics Should Be Incorporated into Translation Programs, Studies Show
Translation programs should incorporate ethics in their curricula, studies show. Besides translation and technical competencies, ethical decision-making proves to be a valuable skill.
Here Are the Best Natural Language Processing Papers From ACL 2022
ACL 2022 Best Paper Committee announces most important contributions this year; machine learning and machine translation among top conference themes.
Slator Interpreting Services and Technology Report
60-page report on the growth industry of interpreting, featuring analysis by mode, setting, geo, buyers, business use cases, RSI, OPI, VRI. Incl. market size estimate.
Large Language Models May Leak Personal Data, Studies Show
Large pretrained language models (PLMs) memorize lots of personal data. Researchers examine data privacy risks associated with PLMs, propose solutions.
What Is the Role of Translators and Translation Technology in Crisis Settings?
In crisis settings, people need access to information in their own language. Here’s how translators, interpreters, and technology can help.
Meta Tries Making Human Evaluation of Machine Translation More Consistent
Social media giant Meta proposes new metric to enable more consistency in human evaluation of machine translation; addresses big challenge in translation QA for low-resource language pairs.
Here Are the Coping Mechanisms Interpreters Need to Deal With Vicarious Trauma
Interpreters are vulnerable to vicarious trauma, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue from repeated exposure to traumatic information. Here are some ways to deal with it.
What to Do About the Talent Crunch in Media Localization
To address the talent crunch in the media localization industry, more universities worldwide need to teach localization skills across multiple languages.
How Automation Affects the Translation Profession
With translation automation, users are able to focus on high-value tasks rather than repeating workflows; new, less mechanical, more dynamic human roles here to stay.
Machine Translation in Subtitling: New Job Profiles, New Skills, New Era
Technological advances are affecting the audiovisual-translation landscape, shaping a new skill set for professionals aspiring to compete in the AVT market; and these job profiles are here to stay
How Translators and Post-Editors Benefit From Speech Technologies
From increasing productivity to allowing a more flexible, translator-centered, ergonomic workflow and workspace, this is how translators and post-editors benefit from speech technologies.
How the Role of the Localization Manager Is Evolving
On the Intento panel at SlatorCon Remote March 2022, four experienced localization managers discuss the evolving role of the localization manager.
EU-Funded Language Technology Platform Adds Tools, Expands Language Coverage
EU-funded twin projects on language equality aim to close gap between high- and low-resource languages; houses growing language technology resources and corpora.
Post-Editors, MT Engineers, PE Consultants — Here Are the Skills You Need
Post-editors need specific competencies and skills to fulfill the requirements of a post-editing task — and establish post-editing as a profession in its own right.
More Visibility, Better Recognition Are Key for Translators — EU Council Report
EU Expert Group on Multilingualism and Translation recommends improving work conditions, pay, and professional development for translators in the creative and cultural sectors.
Why Eye-Tracking Matters in Machine Translation Post-Editing
Eye-tracking technology has advanced considerably such that use cases have opened up in machine translation evaluation, MT error identification, and pricing for post-edited MT.
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