What experts say about increasingly relevant translation technologies

Abstract

When the community of translation researchers, trainers and practitioners is asked what they consider to be most relevant as regards translation technology research in the near future, the unanimous answer is neural machine translation (NMT). The application of AI to the language industries, and to the translation industry in particular, requires a reconfiguration of both the technologies themselves and the way in which they are being employed. In addition, developments in different natural language processing technologies bring new research questions to the field of Translation Studies. This article presents the answers provided by translation experts with different backgrounds and collects the main research questions on translation technologies or emerging from such technology development.