News and Events

📅 March 5, 7:30 PM – Legal Interpreting in the United Nations
👤 Francisco García, Interpreter, Spanish Cabin, United Nations
Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Tayo1tsRxO4204e4vLlPg

📅 March 24, 5:40 PM –Terminology, Corpora, and Translation Training in the AI Era
👤 Chelo Vargas-Sierra, Professor, University of Alicante
Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/1rPIxrMXR6W6oeqrY0pyow0

📅 April 16, 7:30 PM – The NJ Court Interpreting Exam
👤 Robert Joe Lee, Former Manager, Language Services Section, NJ Courts
Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Tayo1tsRxO4204e4vLlPg

📍 Register now using the links provided!

Please check out the events in April!

• APRIL 4: 3:50-5:10 pm. The Art and Act of Translation. A Roundtable Discussion.
• APRIL 4: 6-7:15 pm. Understanding synthetic text generators: the impact of ChatGPT and neural machine translation in language learning
• APRIL 5: 5:30-6:30 pm. Machine Translation, Post-editing and Creativity
• APRIL 6: 5:40-7:00 pm. Interpreting in International Organizations.
• APRIL 12: 1-4 pm. Language Documentation Workshop.
• APRIL 19: 11-4pm. Year of Languages Celebration.
• APRIL 12, 14 and 26: Multilingualism and Social Justice Speaker Series.
• APRIL 21-22: Translation and Interpreting in Indigenous Languages: Career Opportunities for the Community.
• APRIL 22: 10am-3pm: Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop.

Join us on April 5 in this talk by Dr Guerberof Arenas, who will give an overview of current state of the art on machine translation, and describe different concepts of post-editing, usability, creativity. She will also analyze existing research on creativity and technology and offer suggestions on how to better use technology to create from a human-centered perspective and possible lines of research on this area.

Dr Ana Guerberof Arenas is an Assistant Professor in Translation Studies at University of Groningen. From 2020-22, she was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow working on the CREAMT project that looked at the impact of MT on translation creativity and the reader's experience in the context of literary texts. More recently she has been awarded a ERC Consolidator grant by the European Research Council to work on the five-year project INCREC that explores the translation creative process in its intersect with technology. She has authored refereed articles and book chapters on MT post-editing productivity, quality and experience; pre-editing and post-editing; reading comprehension of MT output; translator training, ethical considerations in MT, and creativity and reading experience in literary texts with different translation modalities. She has more than 23 years’ experience in the translation industry.

Register here.

Join us on April 4th for a fascinating talk by Professor Miguel A. Jiménez Crespo on "Understanding synthetic text generators: the impact of ChatGPT and neural machine translation in language learning", followed by a discussion with Laura Ramírez Polo and Nela Navarro.

For years, language educators have worried about the impact of translation technologies such as Machine Translation (MT) (Jiménez-Crespo 2017). Recent advances in Neural MT have accelerated the improvements of these systems, with impressive betterments in terms of fluency and adequacy of their output. Studies have consistently shown that most L2 students use MT for writing tasks, often using it for translating words or very short phrases (e.g., Jolley and Maimone 2022; Urlaub and Dessein 2022; O’Neil 2019). With the emergence of ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology, synthetic text generators can now be used by language learners in a wider range of tasks. L2 students can now write first drafts of essays or conversation scenarios, summarize texts or translate them into multiple languages. Both AI driven systems are based on similar advances on neural networks and transformer architectures that take advantage of the increasing massive computing capacity today. This presentation will introduce language educators to how these architectures work in order to understand why they produce outstanding quality in routine, frequent tasks that are typical of language learning processes. Implications for language education and evaluation of language acquisition will be discussed, as well as the main issues that students should be aware of: privacy, ethical issues or biases in AI.

Link to register: https://bit.ly/NMTLanguageLearning

To celebrate International Translation Day, we have organized a series of activities on translation and interpreting that will take place on the 30^th of September with the generous support of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, their Translation and Interpreting Program, the new Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative, the Department of English, The Language Center, and the Program in Comparative Literature. Please click on the image to get detailed information on the events and a link to registration. 

Please join us in our third talk by Prof. Carme Margiron from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Prof.Mangironis an Associate Professor, researcher, and the director of the MA in Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has extensive experience as a translator, specializing in software and game localization. Her research interests include game localization, audiovisual translation and accessibility to video games and the media. She has presented papers in numerous conferences, published extensively in international journals, and participated in several national and international research projects. She is co-author of Game Localization: Translating for the Global Digital Entertainment Industry (O’Hagan and Mangiron, 2013), the first academic monograph on this topic.

Link for registration: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodOugqzwuGdQo94GgnpcQH1vUW05ROVo6

Streaming on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tispanrutgers/

Channel on Youtube (video will be uploaded later): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjPT2UcGum5whoDfamtYPhA 

Link for registration: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUod-yvrj8jE9FeBWC5S-tfyB_vLeZBIjGf C

Streaming on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tispanrutgers/

Channel on Youtube (video will be uploaded later): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjPT2UcGum5whoDfamtYPhA 

Link for registration: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvduCrqzgjHdWO5tN-2ZNySXhWyTyvxjmU

Join us on Friday February 25th for the fourth annual Rutgers Translate-a-thon, dedicated to bringing together students and speakers of many different languages around short-term translation projects that benefit the RU community and beyond. Bring your language skills and your curiosity to work with us on a variety of translation projects from Spanish, Korean, Chinese, French, Russian, English, and more! This year's event includes both in-person and virtual projects. More information can be found here.

 February 25, 2022 | 10 AM- 6 PM | The Language Center, 1 Spring Street

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