A technical curriculum on language-oriented artificial intelligence in translation and specialised communication
Ralph Kr\"uger

TL;DR
This paper introduces a technical curriculum designed to improve AI literacy among translation and communication professionals, focusing on core concepts like neural networks and transformers to enhance their digital resilience.
Contribution
It presents a novel curriculum tailored for the language and translation industry to foster technical AI understanding and computational thinking among stakeholders.
Findings
Curriculum effectively improves AI literacy in translation professionals.
Participant feedback highlights need for additional didactic support.
Curriculum demonstrates potential for integration into higher education programs.
Abstract
This paper presents a technical curriculum on language-oriented artificial intelligence (AI) in the language and translation (L&T) industry. The curriculum aims to foster domain-specific technical AI literacy among stakeholders in the fields of translation and specialised communication by exposing them to the conceptual and technical/algorithmic foundations of modern language-oriented AI in an accessible way. The core curriculum focuses on 1) vector embeddings, 2) the technical foundations of neural networks, 3) tokenization and 4) transformer neural networks. It is intended to help users develop computational thinking as well as algorithmic awareness and algorithmic agency, ultimately contributing to their digital resilience in AI-driven work environments. The didactic suitability of the curriculum was tested in an AI-focused MA course at the Institute of Translation and Multilingual…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPsychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
