<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>A delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrated International Spanish Language Day this Wednesday at UN Headquarters in New York with the presentation of TeresIA, a project for the translation of terminology into Spanish and Spain's co-official languages using Artificial Intelligence.</strong></h4> The TeresIA project is an inter-institutional project, designed and conceived by a consortium that includes the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the project's coordinating institution; the Cervantes Institute (IC), the Spanish Terminology Association (AETER), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), the National Supercomputing Center (BSC), and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAI). It also has the support of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation. TeresIA is conceived as a research project on terminology and Artificial Intelligence in Spain's official languages. This project allows for the creation of a metasearch engine for existing terms in specialized fields, providing high-quality, validated terminology in Spain's official languages. It is coordinated by Elea Giménez Toledo, a CSIC researcher, who traveled to New York to present the project to the United Nations translators and interpreters. During the event at UN Headquarters, to which the permanent representatives of the member countries of the Group of Friends of Spanish were invited, TeresIA's collaboration with the United Nations terminology database, UNTERM, was announced. This represents "an important step" in a project that "focuses especially on institutional translation and interpretation," according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, released a message on social media this Wednesday to celebrate Spanish Language Day, a "global language" that "connects 600 million people around the world." According to the head of diplomacy, Spanish "is a language of culture, literature, science, cooperation, and international relations." He also emphasized that promoting Spanish worldwide is a priority for the Spanish government's foreign policy. Albares will participate this Thursday in the traditional continuous reading of Don Quixote held every year at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. April 23rd of each year is International Spanish Language Day, coinciding with the date commemorating the death of Miguel de Cervantes. For this reason, the King and Queen presented the 2024 Miguel de Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish (awarded by the Ministry of Culture) to writer Álvaro Pombo this Wednesday in Alcalá de Henares for "his extraordinary creative personality, his unique poetry, and his original narrative," according to the Royal Household. Pombo himself, and his novel "Santander, 1936," were featured in the virtual reading club held by the Cervantes Institute on the occasion of World Book Day. The reading club allows readers from around the world to discuss works by prominent authors of Spanish and Latin American literature online and is part of the institution's Cervantes Week. Due to its coincidence with the awarding of the Cervantes Prize, on this occasion, Pombo's work was chosen to be analyzed through a reading calendar that began on April 8 and will end on the 30th of this month.
