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Podcast: Translation Confessional
Episode: [audio only] Machine Translation: To MT or Not To MT
Description: Today we would like to get into a controversial subject: Machine Translation.
We are all very familiar with the doom and gloom associated with the use of technology when it comes to language services. Many people who don't understand how language technology works mistakenly think that software, apps, or even robots will soon replace translators in the near future.
Considering that, we came across an interesting article that highlights the positive aspects of this technology by arguing how neural machine translation, or NMT, isn't our enemy. We reached out to the author, Joachim Lépine, a...