Tigers and Polar Bears on Translating and the Computer
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aids for translators are beginning to look inviting and actual machine translation (MT), thrown ignominiously out of fashion by the ALPAC report in 1966, is now in use. Only our scepticism is unchanged. We remain wary, especially of MT. Yet although machine translat ion – or rather, in most cases, machine pretranslation – certainly has farreaching implications, it is not, it seems, a threat to translators, unless of course they cannot translate better than the machine. Firstly, there will be no less work for translators. Secondly, MT and human translation are different: they will attract different texts, translators and users. In part icular , MT will create a whole new market of users who would not otherwise obtain translations at all. What follows is part report, part speculation and part an account of how one freelance translator, after many years of distrust, became first intrigued and then, to her astonishment, involved.
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