On the 27th of October, 2022 Prof. Dragoș Ciobanu, together with the HAITrans Team and ZTW Senior Scientist Alina Secară provided a one-day training titled "Translation in the Era of Machine Translation and Post-Editing" at the UN Vienna International Centre. Over 50 in-house senior and junior staff from the translation services from UN Vienna (UNOV), UN Geneva (UNOG), and UN New York (UNHQ), as well as representatives from the IAEA translation services, took part in the event, face-to-face or online.

With concrete examples of neural machine translation (NMT) use from the industry, institutions and training contexts, as well as data from research, the presenters discussed the pros and cons of neural machine translation in professional translation contexts. The topics addressed ranged from scenarios suitable for post editing of machine translation (PEMT), quality and productivity in PEMT workflows, and differences between PEMT and revision, to strategies for PEMT, integration of further tools in PEMT, and impact of MT on linguists, translation processes, and products. The aim was to facilitate fruitful interactions between participants and stimulate discussions about technological advancements and their impact on the occupational status, visibility, and work of professional translators.

The event was part of the collaboration between the University of Vienna and UNOV within the IAMLADP Universities Contact Group. The Universities Contact Group of the IAMLADP Working Group on Training acts as liaison between international organizations and universities as training providers, and promotes information exchange, cooperation and better relations between the two constituencies.