People across China have been very creative in past weeks in finding ways to get around the ban on an article that was critical of how the government handled the coronavirus ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Prof. Antonio Toral, from the University of Groningen, has recently published a study comparing unaided human translation (HT) to post-edited machine translation, (PEMT). (1) Whilst aknowledging that PE is very useful in terms of productivity, ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Content translation tools on Wikipedia allow editors to generate a preview of a new article based on an automated translation from another edition. Used correctly, these tools can save valuable time for editors, in particular ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Chris Callison-Burch --associate professor in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania -- has in past years developed novel cost- and time-saving methods to translate languages, including crowdsourcing and images. In this recent interview for ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Slator has been monitoring research related to neural machine translation (NMT) for a number of years. They have recently said that research output has consistently increased since 2014 and more than doubled in 2018 compared to ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The key connection between AI and philosophy of language has, up to now, been "overlooked and undercelebrated", says the author of this article. Google Translate, in particular, provides a concrete example of Ludwig Wittgenstein's theories. ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner
cApStAn linguistic quality control is a brand name (and a registered trademark) for a holistic approach to translation and adaptation of assessments and surveys; cApStAn also stands for a certain lifestyle and spirit: “Excellence among friends”, as one of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Great panel of speakers and interesting discussions for the webinar organised by TAUS on 11 December on how to "fix" the current translation eco-system, in particular the "knowledge", "operational" and "data" gaps. The webinar followed ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Do the footprints of stereotyping follow us in online environments? Yes, according to cApStAn linguist Emel Ince, and all the more so in the case of "gender-neutral" languages such as her own, Turkish, where there is ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Here is an interesting take on "automation anxiety" among translators. The author's approach was to "crawl" content from forum postings and translator blogs in order to compile "a corpus of professional discourses". He says that, ... Read more >