Outline of an Artificial Intelligence Literacy Framework for Translation, Interpreting and Specialised Communication

Ralph Krüger

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This paper first traces the AI-induced automation of the digitalised and datafied language industry, with a focus on neural machine translation and large language models. Then, it discusses a range of digital literacies that have become increasingly relevant in the language industry in light of these technologies, i.e., machine translation literacy, data literacy and artificial intelligence literacy. After highlighting the interface between these three literacies, the paper sketches an outline of an artificial intelligence literacy framework for translation, interpreting and specialised communication. This framework intends to capture an extensive set of competences required by stakeholders in the AI-saturated language industry.

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language industry; artificial intelligence; neural machine translation; large language models; machine translation literacy; data literacy; artificial intelligence literacy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2024.48.3.11-23
Date of publication: 2024-10-07 11:52:21
Date of submission: 2024-03-17 17:02:39


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