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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 23

⏳ 7 days left! Submit your abstract by 1 May 2025

Are you working on Human-Centered Machine Translation? Don't miss the chance to be part of a groundbreaking Special Issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia (Q1).

✅ If your abstract is accepted, you’ll have until 1 December 2025 to submit your full paper

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 17

And read the paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Are AI agents the new machine translation frontier? Challenges and opportunities of single-and multi-agent systems for multilingual digital communication

PDF | The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced AI agents as a disruptive paradigm across various industries, yet their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 17

🤖 AI agents are everywhere—but what about Machine Translation (MT)?

Thrilled to have a new paper accepted at @mtsummit2025.bsky.social, exploring multi-agent systems for MT.

Better quality, context, and domain adaptation.
Try the demo 👉 agents-parallel-2.streamlit.app

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 9

Spoke at La antesala de Babel @ Comillas today on “The Translation of the Future: Language Engineering, LangOps & AI”.

Loved the energy in the room. I saw students shifting from scepticism to curiosity about language tech. The future of language engineers is looking bright!

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 4

Excited to speak next week at Universidad Comillas in Madrid on the (not-so-distant) future of translation, LangOps, and AI.

My goals:

- What should we do to stay ahead (or, at least, keep up the pace) of technological progress?
- How to do this with a human-centered perspective?

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 2

Localisation Guest Talks – Day 4

We closed the series with Róisín Twomey, Content Program Manager at Microsoft (Packaging Team), who showed us what gets localised—from hardware to UX—and what can vs cannot go wrong.

A great end to an inspiring series!

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Mar 31

Last week I gave a 5h session at Universidad Complutense de Madrid on MT & AI-driven translation tools.

Goal? Show that Python isn’t the enemy — it’s a superpower.

We played with Whisper, SeamlessM4T, Groq API & stats in Colab.

Outcome? A few more language engineers in the making!

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Mar 26

Localisation Guest Talks – Day 3

What a pleasure to host Esther, Chandana & Ian from Zoetis’ Globalization team!

Great insights from early to senior careers—plus a proud moment seeing Ian, a DCU alum from last year, now back as a speaker! Thanks for the energy & inspiration!

Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Mar 19

Localisation Guest Talks – Day 2

Yesterday, we welcomed Estefanía Carmona-Fernández, Localisation PM at Spotify, for a session on career paths in l10n, how to navigate the industry, from vendor to buyer roles, and gave our students a real-world perspective on global project management.

Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Mar 12

Being in Dublin—Europe’s Silicon Valley—gives our students incredible access to industry experts!

Kicking off our guest talk series, we had Mario Pluzny (Localisation Program Manager at Personio, ex-Twitter) sharing his career journey and insights into localisation & globalisation.

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 27

This week, I had the pleasure of visiting Universidad de Valladolid to give a workshop on AI for research & professional tasks and an invited talk at the CITTAC series on human-centered machine translation & language engineering.

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 20

Excited to be heading to Soria (Universidad de Valladolid) next week.

I’ll be talking about human-centered, augmented machine translation — and whether it’s a utopia or actually a feasible way forward for language technologies.

Hopefully, I'll have the chance to try those famous "torreznos" 🤩

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 13

📢 Info & registration: 👉 🔗 ucm.es/metodologia-ta

UCM-Metodología de la investigación en traducción automática para los estudios de traducción

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Educación Universitaria. Grados, máster, doctorados.

ucm.es

Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 13

MT research training opportunity!

📍 In Madrid or nearby? Join this upcoming short-term course at @ucm_es!

✅ Some in-person, some online sessions
✅ Learn solid research methods from experts

🎙️ I’m excited to be a trainer with 5-hour online session!

📅 Feb 21 – Mar 28, 2025
🎓 4 ECTS | 💰 €175

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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · Jan 14

Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026

Guest Editors:
Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University)
Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University)
lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thanks for sharing, Anthony!

Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 4

Additional details: lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...

Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026 | Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies ...

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚀 CfP – Linguistica Antverpiensia!

🔍 Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation (HCAMT).

Let’s explore human-centered approaches that prioritise UX, augment capabilities & redefine collaboration in user-MT/AI interaction.

📅 Abstract Deadline: 1 May 2025
📅 Full paper Deadline: 1 December 2025

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Jan 13

🚨 Call for Papers: TSNI 2025!

📅 May 8-9, 2025
📍 Dublin City University

Theme: Challenges in Translation & Interpreting 🌍

Explore ethics, AI, accessibility, gender sensitivity & more.

📝 Submit by: Jan 31, 2025
📖 Details: ctts.ie/tsni-5/

And you know what? Registration is free!

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Jan 11

Last day in Valencia before heading back to Dublin, aka the North Pole! ❄️

🏃‍♂️ Can you think of a better plan than running 15k along the beach during sunrise at 18 °C? I certainly can't! 🌅

Feeling recharged and ready to tackle the semester ahead with a fresh mindset and full energy!

Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Dec 19

Eskarrik asko, Xabier!

If you find it useful, happy to discuss further if I can be of any help.

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks, Susan.

I hope it is useful, and happy to give you some tips or additional insights if needed.

Happy Christmas!

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Dec 17

Link to the PhD: doras.dcu.ie/30182/

Fostering human-centered, augmented machine translation: Analysing interactive post-editing - DORAS

doras.dcu.ie

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now imagine this applied to:
🏥 Doctor-patient communication
💼 Academic collaboration
🌍 Migrants navigating new lives

Understanding users' needs may be a smarter investment. And HCAMT and MTUX may be another smarter way forward.

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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · Dec 17

What if we focused on the needs of MT users instead?

MTUX and HCAMT shift the focus from "bigger is better" to "smarter and human-centered"—a better investment for technology that truly serves all users. Let’s design for people, not just machines.

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