Machine Translation

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US Department of Defense Seeks Universal Translator

by Caroline Mikolajczyk February 25, 2011 Machine Translation

Darpa, the Defense Department’s research arm, has requested $15 million from the US Congress for a “ Boundless Operational Language Translation” system. Find out more!

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Google Translate to Tackle Poetry

by Caroline Mikolajczyk January 21, 2011 Machine Translation

Google is attempting to translate poetry using their Google Translate machine translation service. Find out more!

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Microsoft TechEd Berlin

by Charlie Jolly November 17, 2010 Education

Given the importance that technology has in any organisation, our IT Manager David Brooks and myself were sent to Microsoft TechEd 2010 in Berlin. Our goal was to learn, research and connect with like minded people and to bring back new ideas and technology. Like many trips, there was not much time left to explore. [...]

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Lack of Translated Documents a Problem for International Travelers

by Charlie Jolly August 19, 2010 Machine Translation

Generally speaking, it’s never a good idea to sign something you can’t read. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for international travelers to be asked to do just that.

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British Colombian Mounties Remove Google Translate From Website

by Richard Brooks August 6, 2010 Machine Translation

The debate over machine-produced versus human translation took the British Colombian division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by surprise, according to this article in the Vancouver Sun.

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Crowd-Sourced Translation Goes Awry For Facebook

by Caroline Mikolajczyk August 5, 2010 Machine Translation

Facebook’s crowd-sourced translation app has helped the company translate Facebook into over 100 different languages quickly and cheaply.

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Computer Program Could Be the Key to Unlocking Lost Languages

by Charlie Jolly July 23, 2010 Machine Translation

Translating written fragments of long-forgotten languages is an extremely difficult, often frustrating task. It requires vast amounts of linguistic knowledge and good intuition to make the pieces fall into place.

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Real-Time Mobile Translation To Be Available Soon

by Charlie Jolly May 7, 2010 Machine Translation

At the Mobile Voice Conference last week in San Francisco, two companies displayed products that can turn your cell phone into an instant translator, although neither is available for consumers yet and both have very limited capabilities.

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Machine Translation Versus Human Translation: A Professional Weighs In

by Richard Brooks March 23, 2010 Machine Translation

Which is better, machine-powered translation or human-powered translation? In this weekend’s New York Times, David Bellos, the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, weighs in. Bellos points out that  both machines and humans make mistakes in translation. While we like to joke about the fallacy of relying on a [...]

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Google New Translation App Brings Speech-to-Text Translation to Your Cell Phone

by Richard Brooks March 16, 2010 Machine Translation

Google’s new translation app aims to turn mobile phones that run on the Android operating system into universal translators. The app is capable of translating text written in one language into speech in another, and vice versa. So, for example, if you were in a foreign country and needed to find a bathroom, you could [...]

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