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What machines can't translate... yet?

What machines can't translate... yet?

TRANSLATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Laurie Gerber started out as Japanese dictionary “coder” at Systran in late 1986. Fast forward twenty-five years and she is a senior industry figure, advising government and industry on major machine translation research and deployments. TAUS consultant Colin Brace caught up with Laurie to get her take on the progress made with machine translation (MT) technology in the last 25 years and the challenges that remain. We also asked Laurie to provide a detailed critique of issues with newer data-driven approaches to MT, such as those used by Asia Online, Google, IBM, Microsoft and SDL Language Weaver, amongst others.

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Articles - Perspectives

The mounties get their man, but not their machine

The mounties get their man, but not their machine

Something very significant happened in Canada last week concerning, of all things, machine translation. First came the Météo system; then the Hansard bilingual training...

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Where are Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft taking us?

Where are Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft taking us?

TRANSLATION IN THE 21 st CENTURY

It’s become a standing joke in technology crystal-ball gazing: fully automatic machine translation will be available “within five years...

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Breaking down the language barrier

Breaking down the language barrier

Earlier this year I wrote about how language barriers are creating a new digital health divide and I suggested that the single biggest barrier to successfully connecting...

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Lionbridge and IBM. What it means

Lionbridge and IBM. What it means

Lionbridge and IBM have announced an alliance to beat their competitors and improve top lines. This marks a new era for the translation industry.

Lionbridge has accumulate...

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