NEaT

NEaT would like to welcome you to a special online English as a Lingua Nordica mini presentation on Tuesday, January 23 at 5 pm Helsinki time (4 pm CET) on Zoom. If we are going to take these new tools into our own work, we have to know what they do and how they work. Then you start to understand how they might fit into your own tasks. If you have questions or even concerns about large language models, ChatGPT and other AI, and how they work, this is the session for you. The session is free to members, ten euros for non-members, to be paid to BIC NDEAFIHH, IBAN FI48 1237 3000 1522 20. 

About the presenter: Mathias Creutz is a senior university lecturer in language technology at the University of Helsinki. During his career in academia and the industry he has worked on a broad range of natural language processing tasks, such as proofing tools, automatic morphological analysis, speech recognition, machine translation, information retrieval, paraphrasing, and grammatical error correction. During the past year he has tested new approaches to solving these tasks by utilizing large language models for conversational AI, such as ChatGPT.

Come and listen to a panel discussion between Vanessa Fuller (Revisor and Instructor in Finland) and David Ordoubadian (Translator in Sweden).

Thursday, 30.11.23 @ 16-17.30 Finnish time

Now’s your chance to hear two experienced language professionals talk about the secrets to their success!

Want to know how they decide what to charge a client? How they negotiate rates and ensure good quality translations and edits? Why they don’t have to market their services too much? What they do when they realize they’ve quoted far too little for a difficult job?

Interested? Then come and join in! Sign up at info@nordicedit.fi.

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Vanessa Fuller, a University Instructor and English-language revisor at the University of Helsinki, tweaks texts. For the past 20+ years, first in Moscow and later in Holland and Helsinki, she has worked as an in-house and freelance style editor and publications manager, in both the public and private sectors, and obsessively encourages and gently assists clients and mentees to communicate their science in more audience friendly and creative ways. 

David Ordoubadian runs his own translation agency in Sweden. Started  in 1997, his agency is small but is able to compete with the big agencies in public procurements and has developed a few specialties where it can compete. David is a translator, editor, instructor in academic writing and works with issues relevant for the translation industry.

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