Secure future
An incident involving a fight, someone who wanted to help, a gun, police, and machine translation (MT) recently made the rounds on several social media platforms. And it only came…
How to be a really good translator
As a teacher, my task and goal is to confer not only the necessary skills required for translating to my students, but also to (hopefully) instill in them a sense…
The future of translation
I have recently posted about the rosy future for translators, despite the recent rise of no-longer-quite-as-terrible-gibberish-producing machine translation, and at the SDL Roadshow I attended this week in Munich, the…
Rosy future for human translation
I have mentioned MT (machine translation) a few times on this blog (e.g. here and here) already, and it will most likely continue to be a topic now and again,…
The Language Barrier Is About to Fall – Or Is It?
Last week, I came across this very interesting essay in the Wall Street Journal about the future of translation and interpretation - via machines?! Anyone who knows anything about proper…
MpT and HAMPsTr
You haven't heard of the two acronyms in the title? If you are a language service provider of any kind, you should have, since they have been around for a…
Google Translate Being Tested
The great BDÜ video comparing the translations of a real flesh-and-blood translator with the results by Google Translate I wrote about here is now also available in English:
Maschinelle Übersetzung auf dem Prüfstand
Wie gut ist Google Translate wirklich? Vor Kurzem hat der BDÜ es einmal ausprobiert: Ein "echter" Übersetzer aus Fleisch und Blut im Vergleich mit der v.a. unter Laien so hoch…
Was Klavierstimmer und Übersetzer gemeinsam haben
Neulich las ich in der Zeitung einen Artikel darüber, dass ein Physikprofessor an der Universität in Würzburg ein Programm entwickelt hat, das mit Hilfe von Entropie (ein Maß für die…