Malmö Global Toolbox Sessions
Tuesday June 6, 2023
The Localization Institute is thrilled to resume offering in person seminars and round tables. These sessions will each take place at the Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live. As a co-organizer of LocWorld Conference, the Localization Institute offers these seminars and round tables as separate, stand-alone events. You do not need to be registered for LocWorld49 Conference in order to sign up for these offerings. If you would like to register for the main conference of LocWorld49, please visit the LocWorld website.
Please Note: Global Toolbox sessions have a 24-person limit that cannot be exceeded – register now to reserve your seat!
Multilingual AI Roundtable
Tuesday, June 6 from 8:30am – 4:30pm
The Multilingual AI Roundtable, formerly known as MT/AI Roundtable, aims to bring together the localization community who are interested in leveraging AI technologies, including machine translation, continuous localization and generative AI. Since the launch of ChatGPT and the rise of pre-trained large language models (LLMs), localization professionals have to embrace both challenges and opportunities. The roundtable provides you with an ideal platform to explore new alternatives when revolutionizing the language industry with multilingual AI, together with AI experts and thought leaders.
AM Modules
Module 1: ChatGPT vs. conventional multilingual AI technologies: technological evolution in MT and CAT, use cases and deployment
Module 2: Keeping AI under control – intelligent quality evaluation, edit distance, quality estimation, alignment (intention and results)
PM Modules
Module 1: Adjusting to the new roles created by AI: how humans work with AI, new job opportunities, human-computer interaction
Module 2: Data privacy and confidentiality: protect client’s data while embracing ChatGPT and other MT/AI technologies
Roundtable moderator/organizer:
Peng Wang, The Localization Institute
Advisory board members:
- Olga Beregovaya, Welocalize
- Alon Lavie, Unbabel/CMU
- Michal Antczak, Paypal
Registration Fee: €750 + 25% VAT – full day price (lunch included).
Dr. Peng Wang has taught, researched and practiced translation and localization on three continents. She is the convener for EDUinLOC, the chair of the automation/AI track for LocWorld conferences and a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. Previously, she was the CAT Tools Coordinator at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Wang has rich research experience on NLP AI, having worked as a linguistic researcher at the Corpus Research Lab at Northern Arizona University, a domain expert for data mining projects at the University of Maryland and an honorary research fellow on automatic discourse analysis tools at the University of Liverpool. Her current research and practice focus on human learning vs. machine learning, machine translation, terminology and multilingual corpus analysis.
Dr. Wang has published about 30 articles and two books. She is an expert in approaching technology in the context of culture and humanities. She embraces linguistic and cultural diversity in her classrooms, with students aged from 18 to over 70, in over 10 language combinations, coming from UAE, China, Italy, Spain, Germany, Morocco, Colombia, Mexico, and Haiti, to name just a few.
Olga Beregovaya has over 20 years of experience in Language Technology, NLP, Machine Learning, Global Content Transformation and AI Data development and is passionate about growing businesses through driving change and innovation. Olga started her career in language technology building lexicons and rules for Rule-based machine translation, gradually expanding her expertise into other broader applications of NLP and Machine Learning to enterprise translation workflows. Olga has also served as President of AMTA, currently serves as a Board member of Women in Localization and as an Advisor for Engineering Leadership at California State University, Chico. Olga received her MA, Linguistics/Germanic Studies at UC- Berkeley and MA/BA in Linguistics from St. Petersburg State University.
Alon Lavie is the VP of Language Technologies at Unbabel, where he leads and manages Unbabel’s US AI lab based in Pittsburgh, and provides strategic leadership for the AI R&D teams company-wide. Concurrently, Alon is an adjunct Consulting Professor at the Language Technologies Institute at CMU, where he has been a member of the faculty for 26 years. Prior to Unbabel, he was a senior manager at Amazon, where he led and managed the Amazon Machine Translation R&D group in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, Alon was the co-founder, President and CTO of “Safaba Translation Solutions”, an enterprise MT solutions technology startup, acquired by Amazon. Alon is a well-known expert in MT and translation evaluation, and spearheaded the development of the METEOR and COMET metrics. Other research interests and activities include MT adaptation approaches with and without human feedback, translation Quality Estimation, and methods for multi-engine MT system combination.
Alon served as the President of the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) (2013-2015). Prior to that, he was president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) (2008-2012), and was General Chair of the AMTA 2010 and 2012 conferences. He is also a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), where he was president of SIGParse – ACL’s special interest group on parsing (2008-2013). In August 2021, at the 18th biennial Machine Translation Summit conference, Alon was honored to be awarded with the 2021 Makoto Nagao IAMT Award of Honour for his contributions to the field of Machine Translation.
Connect with Alon on LinkedIn.
Michal Antczak, Paypal
Bigger, Better, Faster: Taking Your Company Global
Transformation and Managing Change
Tuesday, June 6 from 9:00am – 5:00pm
Recession brought many changes to all kinds of industries. It changed in various ways how global organizations do business, and how they plan for the future, both in the short and long term. How do leaders on the buyer side re-plan their future, ruthlessly prioritize, and make new rules, given all the changes we experienced? How are service and technology partners vendors adapting to the new pace?
In the workshop, we will focus on the necessary ingredients of taking a business global. The speakers and attendees will also share recent experiences and future plans in the context of transformation and managing change as they globalize their businesses and products. We will discuss subjects such as changing their teams’ structure, reporting lines, or scope, or even finding the right application of the recent advancements in artificial intelligence technology, specifically in the context of automating localization management, or amplifying underutilized aspects of original content creation and machine translation.
Roundtable moderator/organizer:
Daniel Goldschmidt
Advisory board members:
- Christiane Bark (Busuu)
- Maria Kania (Translations.com)
- Tarja Karjalainen (OURA)
- Oleksandr Pysaryuk (Shopify)
- Antoine Rey (Argos Multilingual)
- Giulia Tarditi (Qualtrics)
Registration Fee: €600 25% VAT – full day price (lunch included).
