Ralph Krüger
ORCID iD https://www.th-koeln.de/personen/ralph.krueger/
TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication, TH Köln, Ubierring 48, 50678 Cologne
Germany

Ralph Krüger is Professor of Language and Translation Technology at the Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication at TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. He received his PhD in translation studies from the University of Salford, UK, in 2014 and completed his habilitation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, in 2024. His current research focuses on the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) and large language models (LLMs) in the specialised translation process and on didactic strategies and resources for teaching the technical basics of NMT/LLMs to students from translation and specialised communication programmes.

Important publications:

Forthcoming: Automated Translation of Specialised Genres. In S. Baumgarten, & M. Tieber (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society. Routledge.

2023: Artificial Intelligence Literacy for the Language Industry – with Particular Emphasis on Recent Large Language Models such as GPT-4. Lebende Sprachen, 68(2), 283–330. https://doi.org/10.1515/les-2023-0024

2022: Die neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung als Werkzeug fachübersetzerischen Handelns: Modellierung – 'Kompetenz'-/Performanzanalyse – didaktische Vermittlung [Habilitation thesis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz]. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10106.91846

2022: Some Translation Studies Informed Suggestions for Further Balancing Methodologies for Machine Translation Quality Evaluation. Translation Spaces, 11(2), 213–233. https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.21026.kru

2022: Using Jupyter Notebooks as Didactic Instruments in Translation Technology Teaching. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 16(4), 503–523. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2021.2004009