Interpreting and Technology: Is the Sky Really the Limit?

Gloria Corpas Pastor


Abstract
Nowadays there is a pressing need to develop interpreting-related technolo-gies, with practitioners and other end-users increasingly calling for tools tai-lored to their needs and their new interpreting scenarios. But, at the same time, interpreting as a human activity has resisted complete automation for various reasons, such as fear, unawareness, communication complexities, lack of dedicated tools, etc. Several computer-assisted interpreting tools and resources for interpreters have been developed, although they are rather modest in terms of the sup-port they provide. In the same vein, and despite the pressing need to aiding in multilingual mediation, machine interpreting is still under development, with the exception of a few success stories. This paper will present the results of VIP, a R&D project on language technologies applied to interpreting. It is the ‘seed’ of a family of projects on interpreting technologies which are currently being developed or have just been completed at the Research Institute of Multilingual Language Technol-ogies (IUITLM), University of Malaga.
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2021.triton-1.3
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Proceedings of the Translation and Interpreting Technology Online Conference
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July
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2021
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Held Online
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Ruslan Mitkov, Vilelmini Sosoni, Julie Christine Giguère, Elena Murgolo, Elizabeth Deysel
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TRITON
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INCOMA Ltd.
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15–24
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.triton-1.3
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Gloria Corpas Pastor. 2021. Interpreting and Technology: Is the Sky Really the Limit?. In Proceedings of the Translation and Interpreting Technology Online Conference, pages 15–24, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..
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