Assistant Professor
Alexandra Albuquerque
Artificial Intelligence and Multilingualism:
Some Challenges beyond Machine Translation
Bio
Alexandra Marina Nunes Albuquerque has a PhD in Linguistics (Terminology) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Her main research interests are specialized languages, terminology, business translation, localization and technical communication. She is a senior lecturer at Polytechnic of Porto (ISCAP-P.PORTO), and has strongly contributed to the internationalization process of ISCAP-P.PORTO since 2004.
She has also organized several international conferences and meetings. She is currently a reviewer in several scientific international journals, a member of the scientific boards of the postgraduate course in Computer Assisted Translation and of the Master in Specialized Translation and Interpreting (ISCAP-P.PORTO).
She is program director of the Postgraduate course in Technical Communication, president of the board of APCOMTEC -Portuguese Association for Technical Communication and of the board of TCeurope - Federation of Technical Writing Societies in Europe (from 2017 to 2019).
Since March 2019 she is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal Polissema.
Abstract
Keywords: Machine translation, Multilingualism, Challenges.
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Direct, effortless cross-language communication is an old dream of Humanity, and a lot of effort and investment has been made, particularly over the last 80 years, to make it possible.
The Universal Translator from Star Trek is still not available, but, on the other hand, we are also far from the first hilarious texts of Google Translate.
You may hate it, or you may love it, but you cannot pretend it is not there. Robots, AI assistants, intelligent writing/reading/translation are on every screen we touch and are making the world more multilingual, on both professional and personal levels.
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In this talk, we will cover some of the trends in machine translation and conversational design and, of course, some of the many challenges that multilingual human-machine communication encapsulates.