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InterPro

Entered program in 2025

Gatekeeping the Quality of Language Services

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Yao Zhang University of Copenhagen (KU)
Interpreting
Language Technology
AI

In the AI era, the interpreting industry faces major structural changes, yet assessment methods lag behind. Current methods are slow, subjective, and hard to scale, allowing underqualified interpreters in high-stakes settings. InterPro pioneers an AI- and NLP-based platform to deliver fast, standardized, objective proficiency assessments, ensuring interpreters are deployed in settings that correspond to their validated expertise, including legal, medical, and educational contexts.

Yao Zhang

Yao Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP), University of Copenhagen. She has 20 years of professional experience as an interpreter and 10 years in interpreting research, focusing on automating interpreter proficiency assessment.

This project is supported by Spin-outs Denmark, a unique program that invests in researchers who create more impact by starting research-based companies.