This year’s Translating Europe Forum – the 10th edition – will look into what it takes to achieve excellence in translation. Ranging from skills and training to quality management, and from technologies to promoting the language professions, discussions will put translators in the spotlight and show why they are the key to quality. We will also look back at how the profession has developed over the last 10 years – and what the Forum's role has been on this journey. Naturally the agenda will also include a glimpse into the future.

Panel Discussion on “Technology and Creativity – Friends or Foes?”

While language technology undoubtedly increases translators’ productivity, it has a certain impact on quality. And some say it also has substantial effect on inventiveness in translation – setting barriers which make it impossible to be creative. And destroying creativity hampers quality. Also, being imaginative in this way is definitely one area where we, as humans, shine. How can technology and creativity work together? Is the diminishing space for creativity jointly responsible for the “talent-drain” in the language industry? And is the growing share of machine- translated content eventually going to impact the very way humans speak?

Chair: YOTA GEORGAKOPOULOU (LIND Group expert)

Panellists:

 

• ALEX HECKER (Pixelogic)

 

• ANA GUERBEROF (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

 

• WALTRAUD KOLB (University of Vienna, Austria)