“AI and comprehensibility in translation and communication” online workshop

In this Translating Europe workshop, we will have a look at how AI influences and can support translation and communication processes to make texts more comprehensible and clearer for various target groups.

Programme:

9:00 Welcome - Manuela Schlömmer, European Commission/DG Translation (DGT) and Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, University of Hildesheim

9:10 The Commission’s multilingual AI tools - Agnes Farkas, Team Leader - AI Language Services Advisory, European Commission/DGT

9:40 Comprehensibility for different target groups – special features of the use of AI in:

• technical communication and specialised translation
• media communication
• plain and easy language

Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Dr. Franziska Heidrich-Wilhelms, Dr. Silvana Deilen (University of Hildesheim)

11:00 Break

11:20 AI for Comprehensibility: Machine Translation, Simplification and Language Resources – Thorben Schomacker, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

12:00 Role of professional human translators in AI translations - Diego Cresceri, Language industry expert group

13:00 Goodbye