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Interesting news from one of the largest web search engines out there: they are developing applications for instant language translation to serve their millions of users around the world. They are looking for new ways to improve their site and are working on technology that would enable rapid electronic language translation using a tool that would help translate languages in real time.
Fortunately they admit that most machine-generated translation available today requires human editing to correct linguistic flaws as context ambiguities are often littered throughout conversation and written text but they consider they will soon be able to minimize linguistic editing requirements and generate rapid translation as needed by their users.
They think that their only needs are large amounts of compute power and huge amounts of data to develop real-time automated machine translation and they expect to have this application available and ready in the near future.
They are prepared to face problems convincing users that the upcoming hosted service is better than the language translation software used now as there are a lot of translation tools already and they feel challenged to build a better tool.
This is great news on the technology side! We have to develop new and powerful tools to continue learning and growing at our pace: fast, goal-oriented, efficient. We, Translators, will never be replaced by machines. We have to see these new developments as fantastic tools that will help us ease the endeavors in our challenging careers. We will be able to be more productive when we have access to tools like these as we will handle our tasks more rapidly and we continue learning a lot more too. Human input will always be necessary and we will be there to keep an eye on it and amend non human (not perfect!) automated translations!
Paulina Torres De Witt
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008Updated translators
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008– www.goihata.com
On every profession it is important to be updated but in ours it becomes vital! We ought to read constantly and a whole variety of themes: let’s take advantage of the internet to read newspapers from different countries every single day and let’s keep a file with all the information that we gather here and there, that way we will have access to the right word, the precise name and any special date at all times. It is a must to be informed and on the alert.
There are several things we can do: A good idea is to keep personalized lists with terms, words and phrases that catch our attention and we consider might be useful sometime; read reviews and books related to our business to be aware of the latest changes and/or tendencies; open a folder in Favorites on your browser to save the links considered important for consultation as well as learning; adapt to changes by buying the latest equipment and software in order to be more efficient and productive; join discussion groups on the Web; share information with colleagues around the world.
When time is not an issue, although I know most of the time it really is, let’s offer our services without any charge… Remember the saying, the more we give, the more we get! You can easily find several institutions that are helping out the global community in a selfless manner and we can be part of that chain and contribute with our favorite cause, as doing so will keep us active and will provide an excellent opportunity to share our knowledge without expectations except for the satisfaction of helping others. There is always something interesting to share with the entire world, it is just a matter of reaching out and offering a hand.
Paulina Torres De Witt
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