Covert collaboration among translators through data-driven technologies and digital resources: What you get is not what you see

This chapter challenges the cliché that translators do a lonely job, discussing the subtle and covert ways in which data-driven translation technologies and digital resources rely on, and in turn foster, various forms of hidden indirect collaboration. The contribution argues that translation has always been characterised by invisible collaboration, and today translators are constantly immersed in collaborative dynamics and exchanges, often unconsciously and potentially in spite of themselves. After discussing some of the key theoretical, professional and ethical issues involved, the main implications for translator training are examined.