Tag: machine translation
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Lara Translate – offering faithful, fluid, or creative machine translation
When a spoken text is being interpreted, the target text is often less attached to the morpho-syntactical structures of the source text than that of a written translation. Complex sentences are disentangled, so that they are easier to process and represent less of a cognitive load both to interpreters and to listeners, redundancies are smoothed…
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Natural Language Processing – What’s in it for interpreters?
“Natural Language Processing? Hey, that’s what I do for a living!” That’s what I thought when I heard about the live talk “A Glimpse at the Future of NLP” (big thank you to Julia Böhm for pointing this out to me). As I am always curious about what happens in AI and language processing, I…
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DeepL – not too bad, even if it turns marriage into war
After Microsoft Translate and Google Translate, last week I decided to take a closer look at DeepL‘s beta desktop application. I had to prepare over 50 Power Point slides filled with text about quite a number of rulings of the European Court of Justice. I was pretty sure these would be read out at high…
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Can computers outperform human interpreters?
Unlike many people in the translation industry, I like to imagine that one day computers will be able to interpret simultaneously between two languages just as well as or better than human interpreters do, what with artificial neuronal neurons and neural networks’ pattern-based learning. After all, once hardware capacity allows for it, an artificial neural…