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JIAMCATT 2025: efficient machines for healthy minds?

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The 2025 JIAMCATT meeting, which had the theme of ‘Minds & machines: solving the quality puzzle’, emphasised the need for systems in which human expertise and machine capabilities work together to enhance quality while addressing specific constraints. Professionals were encouraged to ‘design frameworks for the future that foster innovation, foresight, and resilience, while supporting skills

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Language services must be proactive: a call to action from JIAMCATT 2024

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JIAMCATT, the International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology, is a task force of the International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publications (IAMLADP) and provides a forum for discussion, exchange of expertise, and cooperation in the fields of computer-assisted terminology and translation, interpreting, and documentation retrieval. JIAMCATT’s membership includes most international organisations

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Promoting AV translation and accessibility: the work of FIT’s AVT committee

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FIT’s Audiovisual Translation Standing Committee, composed of Tiina Tuominen (SKTL, Finland), Elena Aleksandrova (UTR, Russia), and myself, is dedicated to advancing the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) through collaboration, education, and advocacy. Our recent activities, including survey analysis and roundtable discussions, have focused on addressing the pressing issues in our field and fostering a global

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Indigenous language translation and climate change: negotiating displacement and loss

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On 25 November 2023, in this International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the FIT Indigenous Languages Standing Committee hosted a panel discussion to highlight the critical loss of the world’s indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalise, and celebrate them. The intercultural event brought together speakers from Africa, Arctic Russia, and Canada in a conversation on

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Standing committees and task forces hard at work

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A considerable amount of FIT’s work is carried out by individual standing committees and task forces (SCTFs). They cover a broad range of subject areas, such as the internal affairs of FIT; the day-to-day work of translators, interpreters, and terminologists; matters relevant to association boards; and global developments in other sectors that are relevant to

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