| Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Do AI Translators and Interpreters Dream of Electric Sheep? On Similarities and Differences Between Human and Artificial Agents | Keynote, International Conference on Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Age of AI (QTIS), 6 June 2025 |
| Bar-Ilan University (Israel) | Speech Technologies for Professional Interpreters: state-of-the-art and future perspectives | Invited speech, 25 March 2025 |
| Universidad de Granada (Spain) | Speech Technologies for Professional Interpreters: state-of-the-art and future perspectives | Invited speech, 21 March 2025 |
| King Slaman International University (Egypt) | Computer-Assisted Interpreting: An Overview of Tools and Research | Invited speech, 24 February 2025 |
| Globalization and Localization Association | Academia and LSPs Discuss the Future of Interpreting Training | Moderator, 27 February 2025 |
| European Commission (Belgium) | AI-powered interpretation: is the sky really the limit? | Panelist, Interpreting Europe Conference 2025, 2025 |
| University Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) | The Technological Turn in Interpreting | Keynote, 14 February 2025 |
| Wuhan Institute of Technology (China) | From Automation to Augmentation: how research in speech translation can foster supportive tools for interpreters | Keynote, 9 November 2024 |
| GALA (Spain) | Integrating Generative AI in Speech Translation: Quality Review Process | Invited Speaker, GALA Conference, Valencia, 23 April 2024 |
| American Bar Association (US) | Emerging Issues at the intersection of language justice and technology | Invited Speaker, Language Access Conference, 2 March 2024 |
| GALA | Understanding Machine Interpretation | Webinar, 15 February 2024 |
2023
- Panelist “Simultaneous Interpreting and Artificial Intelligence”, Translation Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4 November
- Keynote “Bridging Language Barriers: How AI redefines Multilingual Communication”, 2023 Taiwan T&I Symposium, 27 October
- Invited Speaker “Speech Recognition for Interpreters”, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, 23 October
- Invited Speaker AI, Interpretation, and the Dynamics of Change, AIIC 70th Anniversary celebrations, Brussels
- Keynote “The Rise of AI: Reimagining Research Frontiers in Translation and Interpreting Studies”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Invited Speaker “Translation Training in the Tech Age: A Call for Reassessment and Adaptation”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Invited Speaker “The Interpreting Profession in the Age of AI: Navigating the Tension Between Augmentation and Automation”, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
- Invited Speaker “Machine Interpreting: principles, challenges, and future directions“, Kent University, US
- Invited Speaker “Natural language processing augmenting translation and interpreting“, Surrey University, UK
2022
- Keynote “The Third HKBU International Conference on Interpreting“, Uni Hong Kong
- “Interpretazione assistita e interpretazione automatica: potenziali e limiti dell’IA applicata alla traduzione orale”, International congress TROL – Traduire l’oralité à l’ère de l’IA, Uni Turin
- Keynote “APTIS 2022: Translation and interpreting pedagogy in a post-pandemic world: new opportunities and challenges“, Uni Leeds
- Invited Speaker “Teaching the basics of AI to students of the humanities with EasyAI”, Interinstitutional Task Force on Speech Recognition, European Commission
- Invited Speaker “Automatic speech recognition for interpreters: state-of-the-art and future prospective”, Uni Massachusetts
- Paper “Evaluating automatic spoken language translation as a tool for multilingual inclusion”, Unlimited3! Innovation for Access
2021
- Paper “Ear-voice-span and system latency in AI-based CAI-tools”, Conference techLing2021, Vigo, Spain
- Paper “ABM-SCI: the Artificial Boothmate for the Interpreting Classroom and Research”, techLing2021, Vigo
- Paper KUDO Interpreter Assist: full-automated real-time support for Remote Interpretation, Translator and Computer 43, online
- Paper “ABM-SCI: the Artificial Boothmate for the Interpreting Classroom and Research”, Traslata 2021, Innsbruck
- Paper “Communicative inclusion through automatic speech to text translation” (with Bianca Prandi), IATIS, Barcelona
- Paper “ASR as a supporting tool for interpreters: what empirical research tells us” (with Bart Defrancq), IATIS 2021, Barcelona
- Paper “Towards the evaluation of simultaneous speech translation from a communicative perspective” (with Bianca Prandi), IWSLT 2021
- Webinar “Inteligência artificial e interpretação assistida: estado atual e desenvolvimentos futuros”, Brasilian Professional Association
- Invited Speaker “Making sense of AI in the interpreter workstation”, Lecture Series at the European Masters in Technology for Translation and Interpreting
- Invited Speaker “Human-Machine Interaction in the Interpreting Workflow”, University of Surrey
- Webinar “Augmented interpretation: the promise of artificial intelligence for the profession”, The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)
2020
- Paper “Studying speech-to-text translation from a communicative perspective” (with Bianca Prandi), European Translation Forum, UNINT, Rome
- Paper “Date the Artificial Booth Mate: what does your ideal match with ASR look like?” (with Bart Defrancq), European Translation Forum, UNINT, Rome
- Paper “Artificial intelligence in interpreting: from support for human agents to full automation”, Artificial Intelligence & Intercultural Intelligence. Actions and interactions in translation, interpreting and target contexts, ISIT, Paris
- Paper “Automatic Speech Recognition in the booth: Assessment of system performance, interpreters’ performances and interactions in the context of numbers” (with Bart Defrancq), Artificial Intelligence & Intercultural Intelligence. Actions and interactions in translation, interpreting and target contexts, ISIT, Paris
- Invited Speaker “Artificial Intelligence and Interpreting: supporting tool and full automation”, CenTraS, UCL, Translation and Technology (Virtual) Guest Lecture Series, 2020-21
- Invited Speaker “The Future Impact of AI in Interpreting”, 2020 TRANSLATION WEEK, Mexico
- Invited Speaker “Teaching simultaneous interpreting remotely”, APTIS “Lockdown Interpreting” series.
- Invited Speaker “TransELTE 2020, ELTE University’s 22nd Annual Conference of Translators and Interpreters”, University of Budapest, Hungary
- Invited Speaker “Remote Simultaneous Interpreting – Meeting of Experts”, University of Surrey, England
2019
- Workshop “Presenting InterpretBank”, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Paper “Interpreting and the technological turn in interpreting: the challenges that lie ahead”, BDÜ World Congress, Bonn
- Invited Speaker “Speech recognition in translation and interpreting”, Translating Europe Forum, EU, Brussels
- Panelist “Interpreting training, past and present”, 100 years of conference interpreting, Geneve
- Invited Speaker “Remote interpreting, CAI-tools and artificial intelligence: the technological turn in interpreting”, Institute of applied linguistics, Warsaw
- Invited Speaker “Translation and interpreting in the age of artificial intelligence. Basic concepts and future perspectives”, Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Vittoria, Turin
2018
- Invited Speaker “The upcoming digital turn in interpreting: from CAI tools to artificial intelligence”, Specialized translation, interpretation and creativity”, Istituto di Alti Studi SSML Carlo Bo, Rom
- Paper: “Interpreting and the technological turn”, Discuss Interpreting, ISIT, Paris
- Invited Speaker “Italian in translation in the era of artificial intelligence”, Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Heidelberg
- Invited Speaker “Computer-assisted Interpreting: Stand der Technik und der Forschung”, University of Heidelberg, Ringvorlesung.
- Invited Speaker “Le tecnologie in traduzione ed interpretazione. La situazione attuale e le ripercussioni sul futuro della professione”, University of Turin.
Older
- 2017 “Speech Recognition in the Interpreter Workstation”, Translating and the Computer 39, London.
- 2017 “Speech Recognition and Computer-Assisted Interpreting”, TechLING’17 – Languages, Linguistics and Technology, Forlì.
- 2016 “InterpretBank. Redefining Computer-assisted Interpreting Tools”, Translating and the Computer 38, London.
- 2016 “Computer-assisted preparation in conference interpreting”, Translation and Interpreting. Convergence, Contact, Interaction, Trieste.
- 2015 “Design and Developement of a Freeware Text Analysis Tool for Translation Tasks”, IV International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate (CULT), Alicante
- 2014 “GEROM – Integrating the Web and corpus linguistics to extend the usability of terminology resources”, 4th International Conference Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, Geneva
- 2014 “Variability in translation and the influence of translation technologies”, 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2009 “Wissens- und Terminologiemanagement für Simultandolmetscher”, Internationale Fachkonferenz des BDÜ, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 “Neue Entwicklungen im Bereich Terminologiemanagement für Konferenzdolmetscher”, SDI, Munich, Germany
- 2005 “Creazione automatica di corpora specialistici dal web”, La formazione in terminolgia, Bertinoro/Forlì, Italy
Visiting lecturer
- 2018 Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori, Vittoria, Turin, Italy
- 2016 DIT – Interpretazione e Traduzione a Forlì, Italy
- 2015 Universidad La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- 2013 Ionian University Corfu, Greece
- 2013 University SSliMIT, Forlì/Bologna, Italy
- 2013 University IULM, Milan, Italy.
- 2012 Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Italy
- 2011 Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Italy
Conference/Workshop organisation
- 2021 1st Automatic Spoken Language Translation in Real-World Settings, with Marco Turchi, MT Summit 2021, Texas, US.
- 2014 New directions in corpus-based translation studies, with Federico Zanettin, EST Conference, Germersheim, Germany
- 2013 GEROM: Terminology, Corpora and Media, with Fabio Proia, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Italy