LT-LiDER — an Interdisciplinary Project — (and Where the Language Services Industry and Its Technology Appear to Be Heading)

It is virtually impossible nowadays to glance at one’s professional communities on social media without noticing yet another debate about artificial intelligence (AI) — especially large language models (LLMs) and (neural) machine translation (N)MT when translators and language services providers are involved. The supporters of LLMs and NMT tend to advocate a bright, ever-cheaper-for-clients future in the language services industry, thanks to the NMT or LLM-related services they or their current companies are either repackaging with minimum effort