Artificial Intelligence & Interpreting in the Future. Discussion

AIIC UK & Ireland webinar 15 January 2021
The aim of the final session in our series is to draw conclusions about the extent to which our profession is under pressure, to identify how AI solutions will impact on our profession in the coming years, to consider how AI is perceived by both interpreters and users of interpretation services, and how conference interpreters should respond to the challenges facing our profession.

Speakers:
Thomas Jayes, Head of Strategy and Innovation Unit, Advisor to the Director General, Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC), European Parliament
Antonio Paoletti, Head of the Meeting Services and Interpretation Section, Conference Division at the International Maritime Organisation (United Nations)
Naomi Bowman, CEO of DS-Interpretation, Inc.
Dr Jan Niehues, Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, University of Maastricht
Dr William Lewis, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
Moderator: Monika Kokoszycka, AIIC UK & Ireland

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Artificial Intelligence and the Interpreter
Webinar series organised by AIIC's United Kingdom & Ireland Region

How will artificial intelligence change the interpreting profession? The implications for the market, interpreter training and the delivery of interpreting services could be profound. In this series of webinars, experts in the field explain how advanced current speech-to-speech translation solutions are, what the challenges are, how AI can support human interpreters, and what we can expect in the future.

For details, see https://aiic.co.uk/site/uk-ie/AI-inte...

Organising Committee - AIIC UK & Ireland Regional Bureau:
Françoise Comte, Louise Jarvis, Monika Kokoszycka, Stefanie MacDonald, Deborah Muylle, Monica Robiglio

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