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by Andy Benzo In the words of Benjamin Franklin: “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Never has that phrase been more accurate than now. With all the recent technological advances, we need to be at the top of…
An abundance of free translation services are available online; but what do you get for free? Will a simple sentence auto-translate cleanly across multiple languages? Or will the end result bear little resemblance to the original language? BY SARA GREENWALD Most…
Machine Translation: Part 1 of 5 – Dr. Raymond Flournoy, Adobe. Find the remaining 4 parts of that NCTA Presentation Series at Vimeo.com. “Hybrid” is the way to go in machine translation systems. BY BARBARA GUGGEMOS At the NCTA’s general…
Is post-editing in your future? Will you soon be cleaning up after the machines? The AMTA Conference addressed this and more. BY MIKE DILLINGER, FOREWORD BY YVES AVÉROUS What’s not to like in a conference taking place in Waikiki, Hawaii? Besides,…
At the NCTA September meeting, Dr. Anthony Pym discussed his research findings and explained “what happens” when translators work under pressure. BY RAFFAELLA BUSCHIAZZO The September General Meeting took place on Saturday the 13th in downtown San Francisco and was…
How close are we to the reality of a Star Trek-type of Universal Communicator? The U.S. Government is making a serious effort to get us there. BY HANY FARAG In the December 2007 issue of Translorial, Paula Dieli, in her…