Les midis de la recherche : The MTUOC Project: Developing MT Literacy Through a Hands-on Approach

MTUOC is a project developed at the Arts and Humanities department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) by Antoni Oliver, with the collaboration of Sergi Àlvarez Vidal. Its main goal is to make the training, use and integration of neural machine translation (NMT) systems easier and accessible to translation students and professionals with little computing skills, both as a teaching tool and as a way to train customized machine translation (MT) engines to implement into current translation workflows. Most of the software needed to train neural MT systems is distributed in the form of complete toolkits under free permissive licenses.

We are in the process of translating the online course into English and we think this workshop could benefit translation students and professional translators from other countries. Our goal is to create a European consortium to promote MT literacy by empowering translation students into training their own MT engines and use this wiki as a cornerstone.
 
Sergi Àlvarez Vidal holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Translation Technology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has been an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He has worked as a freelance translator for more than 15 years, specialized in technical translation and localization. His research focuses on how machine translation and LLMs can affect translations and translators, mainly studying post-editing and its effect on the translation process.