Anthony Pym
Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Melbourne, Australia
About
Anthony Pym is Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain; Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Professor Extra-ordinary at Stellenbosch University in South Africa; and Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He was President of the European Society of Translation Studies from 2010 to 2016 and has translated professionally since 1987. His most recent book, with Yu Hao, is How to Augment Language Skills (Routledge), on the use of machine translation and generative AI in language teaching and translator training.
My organisation
The Universitat Rovira i Virgili is the university that provides southern Catalonia with a knowledge structure of international renown. Through teaching, research, knowledge transfer and culture it helps society to be more just and free.
Skills
- translation
- Language Teaching
- translator training
Interests
- machine translation
- AI
- translation
Speaker sessions (1)
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
15:15 - 16:10
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Why language automation needs you
- LLMs
- genAI
The risk of automating language work is that we come to trust all those automatically produced words, thus losing the motivation to question them, explore them, and to learn languages. How can this challenge be addressed?