EXPERT COURSE

NLP - Natural Language Processing Essentials for Language Professionals

The heart of the artificial intelligence revolution

The ‘NLP Essentials for Language Professionals’ expert course offers participants a theoretical and practical overview of the notions needed to master the basics of natural language processing and computational linguistics.

These fields lie at the heart of today’s artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, and understanding their core concepts empowers translators, interpreters, linguists, localization experts, and language services professionals to stay ahead of industry trends and thoughtfully embrace emerging innovations.

Future-proof skills to embrace AI

As AI becomes ever more integral to translation, localization, multilingual content management, and cross-language workflows, this course equips participants with highly-demanded skills to thrive in a labor marketplace that expects both linguistic expertise and technical competence. Participants learn how to adapt to changing professional requirements and build a rewarding, future-proof career.

The keys to succeed

Over four engaging hours, participants have the opportunity to explore the longstanding but evolving relationship between language and technology. The training covers the fundamentals of NLP and computational linguistics, dives into key concepts of AI and large language models (LLMs), and illustrates real-world applications — from text generation and summarization to speech recognition and machine translation.

The course also addresses the current limitations of language AI, weighing their prospective benefits alongside potential risks and criticalities.

Finally, the skills today’s professionals need will be examined, spotlighting emerging career profiles and highlighting the most dynamic growth areas in the language industry.

By the end of the course, participants have a clear roadmap for understanding the transition underway in a rapidly advancing field, expanding their expertise by branching into new specialties, and seizing the highest-value opportunities on the path to success in the new era of language services.

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  • This course includes:
  •  Expert coach: Francesco Saina (translator, interpreter, scholar, and lecturer)
  •  Real useful activities
  •  Life access to contents
  • Downloadable course program
  •  Completion certificate
  •  Money back guarantee
  •  When: 10–11 September 2025 (18:00 CET)
  •  Duration: 4 h (2 h/day)
  •  Live sessions get recorded so you do not miss anything
Session 1
Session 2
SESSION 1

Language & Technology

Session 1

1.1 Language and technology
1.2 Language and computer science
1.3 Computational linguistics and natural language processing
1.4 Artificial intelligence — machine learning, deep learning, and artificial neural networks
1.5 Language models
1.6 Q&A
SESSION 2

AI, NLP, LLMs...
All You Need to Know

Session 2

2.1 Meaning representation and distributional semantics
2.2 NLP tasks and hands-on demonstrations with LLMs
2.3 Current limitations of machine translation and language AI
2.4 Semantic networks and knowledge graphs
2.5 New skills and future perspectives for language professionals
2.6 Q&A

Course description

The course offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to the essentials of natural language processing and computational linguistics, designed specifically for language services professionals.

Participants gain fresh insights into how language experts and technology interact, while building foundational knowledge in the key areas that are shaping the current AI-driven transformation of the language industry.

Topics include:
  • The evolving interaction between linguists and technologies.
  • Key notions: Natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs).
  • Real-world applications of NLP and LLMs.
  • Current limitations of AI applied to language.
  • New skills and roles emerging in the professional landscape.


Who is this course for?

The course is designed for both experienced and aspiring professionals in the language services sector, across all language pairs.

This training helps participants better understand the revolution and role of AI in their work, and how to integrate it meaningfully into their professional practice.
Attendees also acquire with a solid grasp of the most in-demand competencies for today's and tomorrow’s market — empowered to make informed decisions about how to evolve with the industry and stay competitive in a fast-changing field.

Requirements

  • Language: A working knowledge of English (the language of instruction).
  • Technology: Access to an Internet-connected device (laptop, tablet, etc.). No prior technical or programming knowledge is required.
  • Accessibility: The course is available from anywhere. After the live sessions, participants have on-demand access to the full recorded materials.
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Francesco Saina

Francesco Saina is a multifaceted Italian linguist working as a translator and interpreter with English, French, and Spanish.

He is also a university lecturer in translation, interpreting, and language technology, and collaborates on academic and industrial research projects on translation and interpreting technology and natural language processing.

His works on the applications of digital technology to the language professions have been published in academic volumes and presented at international conferences.
Francesco Saina - Course Creator
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