🚨 We’re putting “AI” into everything. But how reliable, safe and trustworthy is it really? New open access paper, proposing the Human-Centered AI Language Technology (HCAILT) framework. A model for operationalising reliability, safety and trustworthiness through the whole language tech pipeline.

🔥 New publication out! My HCAMT work is now published in Tradumàtica. What if “better MT” didn’t only mean bigger models, but "better human–AI interaction"? We compare traditional vs interactive post-editing in a longitudinal study with 11 professional legal translators. Link below.

Human-centered, augmented machine translation: analysing user experience, quality and productivity in interactive post-editing vs traditional post-editing, Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social Tradumàtica Dossier - revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/...

⏳ 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

🤖 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

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!

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?

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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" 🤩

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

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...

🚀 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

🚨 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!

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!

🔥What if improving MT didn’t mean burning millions on compute and data? My PhD is now published, and introduces Human-Centered, Agumented Machine Translation (HCAMT)—an approach to build MT tools that empower users.

🚨Call for papers: "Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology", co-located with the MT Summit 2025 👇 ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls Follow us for updates: @ctt2025.bsky.social Organized with @bramvanroy.bsky.social @anaguerberof.bsky.social Lieve Macken, Damien Hansen & Paola Ruffo

Beyond my role at DCU, I am thrilled to officially join McGill University as an Adjunct Professor! 🎉 Grateful for this opportunity. Big thanks to Maria Sierra Córdoba Serrano for believing in me! Looking forward to bringing fresh ideas (and maybe a pinch of creative disruption😉).

📢 Amazing job opportunity 👩‍💻 Permanent staff Translators for the EU (AD5) 🌍 EU institutions 💸 Starting salary of €5,672 ✅ Main languages: Danish (DA), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Maltese (MT), and Dutch (NL) 🗓Deadline: 14 January 2025, 12:00 (Brussels time)

📢I'm hiring 3 freelance English reviewers Requirements: ✅Trados Studio ✅+3 years of professional experience in the technical field ✅Availability for a daily, long-term project (you will receive a lot of daily work) ✅Start date: ASAP 🗓Email [email protected] with the subject 📥CV, hourly rate

Decisions are out for Panel 20 at EST25! It wasn't easy—with over 1,000 submissions across the conference. The accepted proposals are outstanding. Rejections do not mean that the quality was not good, but that the overall score by reviewers did not meet the threshold. We still have a reserve list.

I spoke at ATII’s "Starting Out as a Translator” event last week. Key takeaway? Tech has always disrupted industries (not just translation—think Cursor in software engineering). What matters is how we adapt. The role of the language engineer is key to thriving in this AI-driven era.