Master Class at Learning Solutions Conference 2011
By Darron | Best Practices, Development Tools, machine translation | One comment so far
I’ll be conducting a Master Class at Learning Solutions Conference 2011. I have a few ideas about what I’d like to share with everyone, but I’d like to know what other attendees feel is relevant. So I’m asking–what do you want to hear about from me? A couple of my thoughts include comparisons between various rapid development software and effectively using HTML markup inside XML. There’s also the possibility of talking about the value (and limitations) of Google Translate.
I’d love to hear back from you all, especially those planning to attend the conference, about what topics are of most interest.
A Case for Human Translation
By Darron | machine translation | No comment yet
I’m all for machine translation. I studied it in school and worked on an inter-university project 10 years ago whose goal was to incorporate it into AI systems. I’ve also looked several times into the feasibility of leveraging the technology more succesfully at my current company. In each case I’ve come to the same result; the state of the art is insufficient to rely on for quality, lasting translation…at least in many areas. Some technical language (or United Nations speeches) come out great. Other areas like advertising and literature get pretty garbled. Case in point, the Chinese restaurant pictured above which is undoubtedly not named ‘Translate Server Error’ in Chinese.
