NATALIE MAIR | UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK

Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Natalie Mair studied at the University of Innsbruck and was an exchange student at the Universidad Central del Ecuador, University of Westminster, Universidad de Granada, and Universidad Intercultural de Quintana Roo. She is a freelance translator and interpreter for German, English, and Spanish, as well as a member of UNIVERSITAS Austria (The Austrian Interpreters’ and Translators’ Association). She is the co-author of the articles Machine Translation in Translator Education (2018), as well as Die Rolle von Kulturspezifika bei maschinell übersetzten Texten: empirische Validierung eines Lehrkonzepts (2019), which were both written together with Astrid Schmidhofer. At an international level, she has been a speaker at the following conferences: I Congreso Internacional: Traducción y sostenibilidad sultural: sustrato, fundamentos y aplicaciones. Salamanca (29.11.2018), Translation Technology in Education – Facilitator or Risk? Nottingham (05.07.2019), y Übersetzen und Dolmetschen 4.0 Neue Wege im digitalen Zeitalter, Bonn (22.11.2019).

Her research focuses on:

• Intercultural Communication
• Neural Machine Translation
• Machine Translation in the Translation Classroom