"Points of View on Translation 2024", a TEW / conference hosted by Jagiellonian University and European Commission

Date: 15-Apr-2024 - 15-Apr-2024
Location: Kraków, Poland
Contact: Krzysztof Łoboda
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: www.bit.ly/povt2024

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Polish (pol)

Meeting Description:

Are you or your students interested in the intersection of AI and translation? If so, join us on Monday, APRIL 15th, at the free "Points of View on Translation 2024" conference, co-organised by the Chair for Translation Studies, Jagiellonian University and the European Commission.

This time we will discuss the latest AI-powered translation advancements and the role of technology in translation and in the language service industry. English will be the main language of this event (available in hybrid mode).
Learn more and register:
bit.ly/povt2024

As usual, we have excellent Speakers
Silvia BERNARDINI (University of Bologna), Adriano FERRARESI (University of Bologna), Agata HOŁOBUT (Jagiellonian University), Szymon KLOCEK (European Commission), Ekaterina LAPSHINOVA-KOLTUNSKI (University of Hildesheim), Jan RYBICKI (Jagiellonian University).

Workshop Leaders and/or Panelists include
Marta BARTNICKA (Dolby and "Niepojęte"), Krzysztof ŁOBODA (Jagiellonian University), Olga MASTELA (Jagiellonian University), Zofia NOWAK (Sopoltrad), Dominika OLSZEWSKA (memoQ and Mindful Dodo), Anna SETKOWICZ-RYSZKA (TEPIS and University of Lodz).

Venue for onsite participants:
Auditorium Maximum, ul. Krupnicza 33, Kraków
Workshops for registered participants will be held at Czapskich 4.

Online participants must register to receive a link to the presentations that will be webstreamed.

Aim of the event
The aim of ”Points of View on Translation” conferences is to engage the local academic and professional community, including students, lecturers, translation companies, and linguists. This year's one-day event will focus on the theme "Potential and Challenges of Modern Language Technologies." Our aim is to gather eminent researchers and translation industry professionals to explore the opportunities and obstacles presented by cutting-edge technological solutions, particularly the increased automation of translation workflows and the utilisation of neural machine translation (NMT) engines and AI tools (such as LLMs). The event is co-organised by the Chair for Translation Studies, Jagiellonian University, and Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission as a Translating Europe Workshop.

To get the program, visit the conference webpage: www.bit/ly/povt2024