You may be getting ready for your summer holidays now, but make sure to mark the summer picnic on your calendar before you go! We’ll meet again at Tokoinranta in Helsinki on Sunday, 2 August at noon. Feel free to bring family, friends and your pet! Tokoinranta is a very short walk from Hakaniemi square …
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CEATL survey about AI
Our friends at the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL) invite you to participate in a CEATL’s survey about literary translation and Artificial Intelligence. “In an era of rapid technological change, it is crucial to move beyond speculation with concrete data so we can continue to advocate for our profession. Your input is vital …
Deep dive: Cleaning up Word documents
A practical session with Margaret Hunter from Daisy Editorial. Tackle the issues that can be lurking in a Word document which can cause problems during editing and later stages of publication, including manual formatting, bad or non-existent use of styles, incorrect characters, unwanted spaces, colours, patterns and shading, and material in fields, text boxes and …
Language professionals in research work: Current observations and future considerations
Juho Suokas & Erja Vottonen, University of Eastern Finland, ReTra Research group RSVP here Language professionals are often an invisible yet essential part of academic publishing. Research work and academic publishing involve much multilingualism and translation – carried out by both professional language service providers and the researchers themselves. However, researchers are often not aware …