The Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia is pleased to host a guest lecture titled 'Responsible AI Applied to Multilingual Technologies' by Dr Helena Moniz from the University of Lisbon, as part of the MA in TESOL Webinar Series.

This online event will take place via WebEx on Thursday, 27th of March 2025 at 15:00 (Cyprus time) and is free of charge. Please see the link below:

https://globaltraining.webex.com/globaltraining/j.php?MTID=ma9dabf395b518e49572d70fe72749edb

This talk will cover distinct Multilingual Technologies with speech and text modalities and the application of Responsible AI principles. The talk will encompass several challenges, opportunities and new ways of working of linguists/translators in an era of AI. It will finalize with examples of research projects conducted in the scope of Responsible AI between academia and industry/organizations.

Helena Moniz is the President of the European Association for Machine Translation (2021-) and President of the International Association for Machine Translation (2023-). She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures (2025-). Helena is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, where she teaches Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Translation, and Machine Translation Systems and Post-editing. She is the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (2023-) (https://centerforresponsible.ai), and the coordinator of the project Bridge AI (https://bridge-ai.eu). For more information, please visit https://hlt.inesc-id.pt/w/Helena_Moniz

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics