Academic seminar with Professor Binhua Wang

Name: Academic seminar with Professor Binhua Wang
Start: 2024-10-30T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-30T14:30:00+01:00
Location: Lancaster University

Schedule

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Lancaster University | Lancaster, EN

'Ethical considerations about using AI-powered machine translation and interpreting in high-stake situations' with Professor Binhua Wang
30 October 2024, 12:00-1:30pm at Lancaster University.
Abstract:
AI-powered machine translation and interpreting (MT and MI) tools, ranging from Google Translate to ChatGPT etc., are becoming more and more widely used. While MT and MI tools might be used to support linguistic diversity and access to information, they involve consequential risks of errors and serious ethical issues esp. when they are used in high-stakes situations. However, the ethical complexities involved in using MT and MI have been largely neglected. In this presentation I will share my observations and thoughts in this regard.
Speaker Biography:
Prof. Binhua Wang is Chair/Professor of interpreting and translation studies at University of Leeds in the UK, where he served as Director of the Centre for Translation Studies and Programme Manager of the MA programmes in interpreting. He is an elected Member of the “European Academy of Sciences and Arts” and Fellow of the “Chartered Institute of Linguists”. He sits on the Executive Committee of the UK “University Council of Languages” (UCFL) and the Interpreters Committee of the “Translators Association of China”. Currently he serves the international academic community as the co-editor of Interpreting and Society (a Sage journal), chief editor of Int’l Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting and on the editorial boards of many journals, such as Babel, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Forum: International Journal of Interpretation and Translation, Chinese Translators Journal, Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Translation Quarterly, The Linguist, etc.
His research interests focus on interpreting and translation studies, with interdisciplinary extension to digital humanities, Chinese studies, intercultural studies and language education, in which he has published many articles in world leading SSCI/A&HCI/CSSCI journals and in edited volumes published by Routledge, John Benjamins, Springer, Brill, Bloomsbury, Palgrave and Macmillan. His recent articles have appeared in such journals as Across Languages and Cultures, Babel, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Language and Intercultural Communication, Perspectives, Translation Review and in The Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting and The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis. He has published several monographs and edited with Prof. Jeremy Munday Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Routledge). He has also guest-edited themed special issues for some top international journals such as Perspectives, Frontiers in Communication and Asia-Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies. His textbooks for interpreter training are used widely in China’s MTI and BTI programmes. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches to about 30 international conferences and to give guest talks in many universities in China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, U.S., Canada, U.K. and European continent.
All welcome - please register via the link below: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/confucius-institute/events/ethical-considerations-about-using-ai-powered-machine-translation-and-interpreting-in-high-stake-situations-with-professor-binhua-wang