Perspectives on Technology and Interpreting Advances in Automation and Artificial Intelligence

List of Contributors

Foreword (Maria Chiara Russo)

Introduction (Gloria Corpas Pastor and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero)

PART I

AI, LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES, AND INTERPRETING

Chapter 1        Artificial Intelligence and Multilingual Communication: The Generative AI Challenge (Enrique Alba)

Chapter 2        Speech-to-Text Translation in the New Age of Interpreting Technologies: A Comparative Evaluation of the Interprefy AI Speech Translation System (Francisco Javier Lima-Florido, Dora Murgu, and Gloria Corpas Pastor)

Chapter 3        Exploration of Machine Interpretation and Multimodal Cognitive Computing (Xiaojun Zhang)

Chapter 4        The Transition From Human to Automatic Live Captions and Its Impact on Quality Assessment (Pablo Romero-Fresco and Oscar Alonso-Amigo)

Chapter 5        Speech-to-Text Interpreting: Intersection of Interpreting, Technology, and Accessibility (Daniela Eichmeyer-Hell)

PART II

AI-DRIVEN TOOLS FOR INTERPRETER PREPARATION

Chapter 6        Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Language Interpreting: Big Data and Digital Solutions (Jun Pan)

Chapter 7        AI-Generated Gamified Activities With Ray: A Technological Tool for the Interpreter Preparation Phase (Marta Alcaide-Martínez)

Chapter 8        Sight-Terp Practice Versus ChatGPT: Which Tool Can Offer Better Speeches in Chinese for Interpreting Training? (Xiaoqing Zhou-Lian and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero)

Chapter 9        Exploring ChatGPT for the Design of Training Materials in Consecutive and Bilateral Interpreting: First Attempts and Results (Ingrid Cáceres-Würsig, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, and Darío Mantrana Gallego)

PART III

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERPRETING AND COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS

Chapter 10      Technology Across Interpreting Phases: A Comparative Study Among Professionals and Students (Laura Noriega-Santiáñez)

Chapter 11      Computer-Assisted Interpreting Tools and Cognition: A Sight Translation Study Using Eye-Tracking Technology (Jorge Lucas-Pérez)

Chapter 12      Interpreting Technologies to Improve Stress Management in the Student Learning Process (Encarnación Postigo Pinazo and Presentación Aguilera Crespillo)

Chapter 13      Term Extraction Methodology Based on Ad Hoc Parallel Corpora for Conference Interpreting Training in the English–Arabic Language Pair (Mahmoud Gaber)

Chapter 14      The Technologisation of Interpreting: A User-Centred Road Map From Digitalisation to Human–AI Synergy (Gloria Corpas Pastor)

PART IV

REMOTE AND TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED INTERPRETING

Chapter 15      New RSI Tools, New Training Implications: The Case of a General-Purpose Videoconferencing Platform Applied to Conference Interpreter Training (Michela Bertozzi and Francesco Cecchi)

Chapter 16      Interpreting the Manner of Speech in Technology-Enabled Remote Court Hearings in Australia (Ran Yi, Ling Yan, and Jinhua Sun)

Chapter 17      Lexical Borrowing in Refugee Protection Situations of Social and Remote Interpreting: German, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian Combinations (Olga Koreneva Antonova and Hanan Saleh Hussein)

Chapter 18      Remote Interpreting Systems, Machine Interpreting, and Multiword Units: A Melting Pot (Isabel Peñuelas Gil and María Teresa Ortego Antón)

Index

Biography

Gloria Corpas Pastor is a professor of translation and interpreting and the director of the Research Institute in Multilingual Language Technologies (IUITLM) at the University of Malaga, Spain. She also holds an honorary adjunct professorship at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero is a lecturer in translation and interpreting at the University of Malaga and a researcher at IUITLM (Spain).