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Machine translation for everyone
Empowering users in the age of artificial intelligence
Contributor(s)
Kenny, Dorothy (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Language learning and translation have always been complementary pillars of multilingualism in the European Union. Both have been affected by the increasing availability of machine translation (MT): language learners now make use of free online MT to help them both understand and produce texts in a second language, but there are fears that uninformed use of the technology could undermine effective language learning. At the same time, MT is promoted as a technology that will change the face of professional translation, but the technical opacity of contemporary approaches, and the legal and ethical issues they raise, can make the participation of human translators in contemporary MT workflows particularly complicated. Against this background, this book attempts to promote teaching and learning about MT among a broad range of readers, including language learners, language teachers, trainee translators, translation teachers, and professional translators. It presents a rationale for learning about MT, and provides both a basic introduction to contemporary machine-learning based MT, and a more advanced discussion of neural MT. It explores the ethical issues that increased use of MT raises, and provides advice on its application in language learning. It also shows how users can make the most of MT through pre-editing, post-editing and customization of the technology.
Keywords
Computers; Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language ProcessingDOI
10.5281/zenodo.6653406ISBN
9783985540457, 9783961103485Publisher
Language Science PressPublisher website
https://langsci-press.org/Publication date and place
2022Grantor
Imprint
Language Science PressClassification
Natural language and machine translation