Marina Pantcheva, PhD
Director Linguistic AI Services
RWS Group
Brno, Czech Republic
Director of Linguistic AI Services • Theoretical Linguist • Public Speaker • Educator & Science Communicator • Presentation Coach • Hyperpolyglot
About me
Marina Pantcheva is a linguist and polyglot with extensive experience in academic research, teaching and science popularisation, as well as management, leadership, and innovation. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics within the Nanosyntax framework.
In 2014 Marina joined the localisation industry, where she first led a multi-faceted team developing solutions for crowd-based localisation, covering technology, business intelligence, linguistic quality and managing a large translator community. Marina currently serves as Director of the Linguistic AI Services division at RWS, focusing on the development and integration of AI solutions and researching the implementation of Large Language Models in localisation workflows.
Marina is a fervent advocate of clear communication and actively participates in outreach initiatives, including public presentations, blog contributions and podcasts dedicated to knowledge dissemination.
My organisation
RWS is a global leader in transforming content through translation, localization and AI-enabled technology – blended with human expertise.
Skills
- Localization
- Public speaking
- generative AI
- leadership
- Nanosyntax
- Theoretical linguistics
- Outreach and science communication
Interests
- Biking
- Astrophysics
- Theory of chaos
- painting
- skiing
- neuroscience
- Art and crafts
Speaker sessions (1)
Friday, 8 November 2024
09:45 - 10:45
2nd KEYNOTE SPEECH Compete, collaborate, or take control: the role of linguists in an AI future
- AI
- Technology
- genAI
In this keynote speech Marina will explore where AI can achieve human-level performance and where it still faces challenges, advocating for a human-in-the-cockpit model as the next evolution stage of the "human-in-the-loop" approach.