From peripherals that can translate instantly from one language to another to able to keep a conversation in a language we do not handle, to applications for cameras which translate text from signs, posters, etc.; and Google with its neural translator which constantly feeds itself, Automatic or Machine Translation (MT) has advanced by leaps and […]
Translations connect people and cultures around the world. Many people study languages because they would like to travel somewhere, whether near or far, and want to be able to communicate in the local language. However, this is not always the case, as many limit themselves to only studying the most widely spoken languages in order […]
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 to the feeling experienced by human translators in the age of machines. Just as the characters in Cortázar’s story feel displaced by an invading entity, human translators feel displaced by […]
This year, Portland will be the city hosting the TAUS User Conference, which will take place on October 14 and 15. The conference will be focused, as we know, on the novelties in translation processes, localization service innovations and cooperation among industry professionals. Above all, it is important to know that TAUS provides research services […]
The idea of using computers for translation is not a touch&go, it has been touch&stay since the 1950’s. It was first proposed by A.D. Booth in 1946 and in 1954, a completely automatic translation of more than 60 sentences from Russian to English took place in Georgetown as an experiment. In 1985, Spain began a […]
Human Translations: The Path to Professional Quality Professional Human Translation Services In the world of translations, there has been significant emphasis on the development of technology and automatic machine translations. As we will see the next couple of minutes, the use of humans is still essential to achieving professional quality in translations. As you can […]
The benefits of automatic translation are beyond compare. So much so that just a few years ago (in 2009), Google launched a tool (complementary to Google Translate) that allows you to translate the entire content of a website to 51 languages. With this tool, if you go to a Web page that is in a […]
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 format as well as the text itself and any of its typographical errors. The handling of the format in all its forms: tables, images, text boxes, tables of contents, headers […]
Automatic translation, also for these purposes referred to as machine translation, is a component of Computational Linguistics and represents the intersection of Translation and Information Technology to explore the functions of the software that can translate text from one language to another in a legible manner. Alan Melby, PhD in Computational Linguistics and professor at […]
We have seen in previous posts that post-editing is the human process of reviewing a text translated by a machine to give it grammatical and semantic sense to a particular text. But can this system be used in all cases? As an option, it can be used, but at times it is not profitable or efficient […]