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2009.10.23 11:35:29

The translation industry has been debating the human versus machine subject for many years.  We have heard repeated claims that machine translation was the next big thing.  But to date, the technology has never quite arrived.  Software has improved but language changes regularly and can have multiple meanings.





2009.08.18 18:16:29


The French newspaper La Tribune offers its non-French readers the opportunity to use machine translation to translate their articles.  For example, clicking on the American flag will give you a form of English.
See the extract from two articles below, both of which show the continuing limitations of machine translation.





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