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BP Translation Conferences have been taking place annually since 2014, with an ever-growing international audience of translators.

FinLex26 online event on financial and legal translation :: BPconf.com/FinLex26
BP Interpreting Days :: Valencia :: 19-20 January :: BPconf.com/BPID27
BP27 Translation Conference :: Prague :: 26-28 April 2027 :: BPconf.com/BP27 Next major event: BP26 Translation Conference, 20-22 April 2026, Avignon (FR)
More info: BPconf.com/BP26

31/08/2026

At FinLex26, Wojciech Wołoszyk will hold a workshop on AI-assisted term extraction and glossary building from large EU corpuses of official legislation.

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Extraction is the cheap part. What makes a glossary usable is what happens to each candidate afterwards, and that is where an automated multi-agent pipeline does work no prompt does: it reads the whole corpus, classifies the candidates, grounds each against official legislation and case-law databases in 70+ jurisdictions, retrieves quotations in authentic wording, and runs a comparative pass before proposing an equivalent.

We work on European Court of Human Rights case-law because it is where back-translation does the most damage. The Court paraphrases national statutes and judgments in English or French, and quotes international rulings already official in your language; rendering any of it back puts wording into circulation that no legislature enacted and no court handed down. Found, not translated.

You will take candidates through four layers of context, build entries naming the source that decided them and the condition resolving a variant, and see how far the pipeline carries an entry before a human ratifies it.

Three things to take away. An entry without a source is a proposal, not a decision. The decision follows all four layers; skipping one is a legal error, not a stylistic one. Variance is legitimate; silence about variance is not.

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Wojciech Wołoszyk is a lawyer-linguist with over twenty years in legal and EU translation and the author of the contextual stratification method – a four-layer framework for terminological expertise in cross-systemic disputes, validated in precedent-setting Polish case law.

He is CEO of IURIDICO Legal & Financial Translations (Gdańsk), certified to ISO 20771, and serves as an external lawyer-linguist to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Central Bank and as a translator for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. For TransLegal he is Country Advisor for Poland on multi-jurisdictional legal-tech and legal-linguistic tools, and coordinates the team behind the Polish part of The World Law Dictionary: over 10,000 legal terms with English equivalents and notes on concepts that have no full counterpart in common law.

Court-Appointed Expert in Legal Linguistics at the Regional Courts in Warsaw and Gdańsk. He is a member of the Expert Panel of PT TEPIS and Senior Lecturer in Terminology, Specialised Translation and Language Technologies at Koszalin University of Technology. He designs AI tools for legal translation on one principle: AI encodes and enforces expert knowledge, and the terminological decision stays with the human.

28/07/2026

Join our first event specifically dedicated to interpreters!

Business aspects, practical applications, insightful talks, hands-on workshops -- all in the exciting city of Valencia

Call for papers extended to 17 August.

We already have some pretty interesting subjects; keep them coming!

Registration opens in late September.

26/07/2026

Back home after a 3-week backpacking trip around Peru -- something we've planning to do for 30 years now

Recharged the batteries, greatly improved my Spanish, even successfully bargained several times in Quechua...
.. now it's time to jump back in to all BP-related business

02/07/2026

At FinLex26, a regular BP attendee, Karolína Šajánková, will share her expertise in legal English in the field of family law

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The work of legal translators often includes cross-border family cases, and therefore it is critical to understand legal concepts of the source/target culture. The workshop has two parts: the first part focuses on a brief intro into the UK and U.S. family law offering a solid theoretical basis followed by the second practical part with exercises, useful templates, and specific terminology.

Its target group are seasoned and beginning legal translators with English. The attendants will benefit from increased awareness of legal principles, ready-made solutions for the most frequent language challenges, and hands-on translation templates.

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Karolína Šajánková is a court translator and interpreter for English, German, and Slovak with 18 years of experience. She specialises in law, business, and tourism. Her profound legal knowledge comes from many CPD courses like the BDÜ’s Summer school on German legal system, Legal English Course by Oxford Royale Academy, and the Vienna Legal Language Proficiency Exam.

Karolína believes that the AI boom will inevitably lead to urgent need of classic education. She organises regular legal English workshops at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia) and held a webinar on German and UK civil and criminal law for Arizona translators in 2023.
www.sajankova.sk

01/07/2026

BP Interpreting Days start 200 days from now!

Calling conference interpreters, court interpreters, medical interpreters, wedding interpreters, construction site interpreters, business meeting interpreters, and any other type of interpreters who'd like to take a break in the winter and learn about your profession, meet your colleagues, and gain inspiration for the year to come.

Call for papers open until late July.
A few exciting proposals are already in, keep them coming!

Tuesday, 19 January: Workshops
Wednesday, 20 January: Presentations
We'll also have networking dinners and probably walking tours as well.

Tickets probably from September.

Venue: NH Valencia Center, with a rooftop pool that also operates in the winter, and a nice bar next to the lobby. Easy to reach from the airport and train station, a 15-minute walk to the old town.

Invite your colleagues, spread the word -- we need to have at least 120 attendees to make this work. Sign up on the website if interested.

I picked January as it's a relatively slow period in an interpreter's life. I picked Valencia as it offers a nice escape from gloomy winter days in most of Europe (although this is hard to imagine in the current heat wave).

30/06/2026

Announcing the first session of FinLex26...
This online event focuses on financial and legal translation, and will take place mid-September

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While many translators specialise in either law or finance, the reality is that the two fields often overlap. These hybrid documents present challenges that are not always addressed in traditional legal or financial translation training. This presentation will address a recurring challenge faced by financial translators: working confidently with unfamiliar concepts that fall outside their primary specialisation. The aim is to combine terminology analysis with practical guidance on research methods and reliable specialist resources, equipping translators with tools they can apply immediately in their own work.
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Edward Errante holds a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley and is a former member of the State Bar of California. He was a tenured lecturer at Université de Paris, where he taught US and English law for 30 years. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance financial and legal translator (FR>EN, ES>EN). He led translation workshops at the 2024 and 2026 Financial Translation Summer Conferences of the Association Suisse de Traduction, de Terminologie et d’Interprétation (ASTTI) and is a member of the Société Française des Traducteurs and of the American Translators Association. He is based in Nantes, France.

25/06/2026

Today and tomorrow I'm in Valencia* to check out venues for BP Interpreting Days (19-20 January)

It's almost 40 degrees, and in January it's likely to be a pleasant and sunny 16-18 C.

The event will be dedicated to interpreters; with workshops, presentations, and fringe events.

*BP = 'Balencia' is the Pronunciation :)

18/06/2026

I may have found our gala dinner venue for BP27 in Prague, opposite the famous 'Dancing house'

16/06/2026

Online event on legal and financial translation in September:
Speaker application closes on Friday

13/06/2026

BP27 tip: An easy day trip from Prague is Český Krumlov, a gem of a small town in southern Bohemia.

An hourly train leaves just 3 blocks from the conference hotel, making it a convenient destination. The ride takes 2:40 though in one direction, and you'll share the streets with plenty of other tourists, so it's a good idea to start early. (The earliest train leaves at 7:00, then every hour on the hour.)

When I first visited the town, back in September 1993 (hitchhiking from Prague), there were hardly any visitors. You missed that opportunity, but you can still enjoy the magic of Český Krumlov.

A section on the event web page will be dedicated to possible day trips -- this is just a teaser :)

Btw, if you plan to combine BP27 with a journey around Central Europe, Český Krumlov is a good staging point to Vienna (Flixbus takes you there directly in 4 hours).

Adresse

162, Chemin Des Canotiers
Avignon
84000

Site Web

http://www.bpconf.com/FinLex26

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