the end of the world for translation as we knew it? © jost zetzsche @jeromobot...
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Really?
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Translation saves lives
• On January 12, 2010 the earthquake in Haiti knocks out all communication lines except SMS
• Responders don't speak Haitian Creole• Mission 4636 organizes hundreds of Haitian
expats for SMS translation service • Saves hundreds of lives
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Translation saves more lives
• 1997 bird flu in Hong Kong• G-PHIN is founded in connection with W.H.O.• Translates 4000 English, French, Persian,
Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish articles a day
• Passes on flagged articles to human translators• Detects SARS in 2003 and swine flu in 2009
and saves maybe thousands of lives
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Let the Computer Do It?
Tampa Tribune article of 2003: “Yellow Fever”
"An epidemic of penalties has thwarted many drives, resulting in a three-game losing streak and essentially leaving the Bucs' season on life support.”
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Let the Computer Do It?
Tampa Tribune article of 2003: “Yellow Fever”
"An epidemic of penalties has thwarted many drives, resulting in a three-game losing streak and essentially leaving the Bucs' season on life support.”
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Technology and the translator
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www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html
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What was the response of the "translation industry"?
• The what?
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Digitization in the 80s and 90s
• Quality assurance • (aka spellchecking)
• Terminology management• Translation memory
combine into TEnTs (translation environment tools)
(aka CAT tools)
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How do translation professionals respond?
• Newly-formed LSPs enthusiastically• Freelance translators slowly• New pricing models create division
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And what did we think about MT during that time period?
"The spirit is willing but the body is weak"
=
"The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten"
(urban myth)
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Early 2000s• Potentially translatable data grows
exponentially• Social networks and the increasing multi-
lingual nature of web necessitates on-the-fly translation gisting
• A new kind of machine translation becomes feasible that is based on previous translations
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And just like that,machine translation
took over
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Just kidding!
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How do we use MT right now?
• Who is regularly working on machine translation projects?
• Who is regularly using MT as a productivity tool?
• Who has tried to use MT as productivity tool?
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Language-specific usage of MT within DGT
Source: Languages and Translation, 2/2013, Directorate-General for Translation
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Language-specific quality evaluation of MT
4: Most segments reusable, similar to good translation memory matches
3: Most segments reusable, similar to poor translation memory matches
2: Many words or partial phrases reusable with acceptable editing
1: Some words or partial phrases making me aware of alternatives
0: Translating from scratch outperforms any other benefit
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Some facts• Yes, use of MT for some kind of projects will
continue to grow• Yes, it's easier than ever to build your own MT
engine• Yes, as an LSP you will want to add MT to
your portfolio• And, no, as a freelance translator you don't
need to storm the barricades and subscribe to one or another ideology
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Machine translation has taken over
in finally making apparent how fragmented our industry is
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We need to understand what part(s) of the many facets of the
"industry" we want to be part of . . .
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. . . embrace those qualities . . .
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. . . and realize that they allow access to endless possibilities
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The End of the World of Translation as They Knew It