Humans Vs. Machines: Final Battle
Since the industrial revolution displaced millions of workers, replacing them with machines that were much faster, stronger and more efficient than they, today, many people
Translator: If You Can’t Beat the Machine, Join It
Is it possible that technology could turn against those who believe they are using it to their advantage? Could a situation similar to that of
50 shades of Mary
Machine translation is inevitably popular these days as, as previously discussed in this post. And who can blame its users? Google Chrome’s suggestion to “translate this
Translation Services: a Plethora of Options
What translation services should a client pay for? Which are the most effective or suitable? The truth is that when it comes to requesting a
House Taken Over: Displacing the Machines
In this post, “House Taken Over” is not in reference to the famous story by the renowned writer and translator Julio Cortázar. Rather, it refers
What Is a Controlled Natural Language?
Translators frequently have to confront issues that are often the result of problems existing in the source text we are translating. Some of the most
Evaluating SymEval
SymEval is a tool written in Python for measuring the effort invested in the Post-Editing (PE) process. It reports the edit distance between segments in
Linguistic Pre-edition
Pre-edition, as we have seen in other posts, may include several procedures: a text can be pre-edited both from the point of view of the
The History of Machine Translation
In recent years, machine translation has become a commonplace element in translation agencies. A good post-editing of a machine translation can produce the same results
Machine Translation
A delightful example illustrates well one of the earliest myths about the problems that may arise when trying to translate text using a computer. The
