International symposium on translation and artificial intelligence next Tuesday in Doha

Doha: The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding will hold an international symposium titled Translation and Artificial I...

Doha: The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding will hold an international symposium titled "Translation and Artificial Intelligence" next Tuesday morning, featuring experts and specialists from Qatar and several Arab countries to discuss the challenges posed by artificial intelligence in the field of translation.

The symposium forms part of the cultural program accompanying the announcement and honoring of the winners of the eleventh edition of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding, scheduled for the same evening.

The event will feature three main presentations.

The first, titled "Smart Tools and Open-Source Lexical Resources for Translation and Arabization", will be delivered by Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Director of the Ibn Sina Laboratory for Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence at both Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Birzeit University in Palestine.

The second presentation, titled "Translation and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Academic Gaps in the Arab Context", will be given by Dr. Ghassan Mourad, researcher in language computation, artificial intelligence, and digital media at the Lebanese University.