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Mark
Mark
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Growth from machine translation Dec 20, 2012

I’m not very business-minded myself, but I wonder about no. 3.

It’s easy to see that machine translation can boost the growth of the language industry in the short term. Is it true in the long term as well?
 
Andrei Sokolov
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Россия
Local time: 20:46
русский => английский
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Growth from machine translation Dec 20, 2012

If we agree that the size of the language industry is measured in monetary units and not in text quantities translated by any means, then improved machine translation, instead of fueling the growth of the language sector, does exactly the opposite in that it (1) massively reduces the need to employ professional translators for 'lesser-quality requirements' and (2) reduces the cost of offered translation services (though mostly for 'lesser-quality requirements', again). I am not opposed to machin... See more
If we agree that the size of the language industry is measured in monetary units and not in text quantities translated by any means, then improved machine translation, instead of fueling the growth of the language sector, does exactly the opposite in that it (1) massively reduces the need to employ professional translators for 'lesser-quality requirements' and (2) reduces the cost of offered translation services (though mostly for 'lesser-quality requirements', again). I am not opposed to machine translation as such, but if it does boost the growth, it does it indirectly. ▲ Collapse
 
Mathilda Banfield
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Нидерланды
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китайский => голландский
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'next website: machine translation' Dec 20, 2012

Mark Dobson: I’m not very business-minded myself, but I wonder about no. 3.

It’s easy to see that machine translation can boost the growth of the language industry in the short term. Is it true in the long term as well?


We've been informed by one of our partners that the next version of their website will be a machine-translated, a service they get from Microsoft. So our current translation of their website will be the last human translation... See more
Mark Dobson: I’m not very business-minded myself, but I wonder about no. 3.

It’s easy to see that machine translation can boost the growth of the language industry in the short term. Is it true in the long term as well?


We've been informed by one of our partners that the next version of their website will be a machine-translated, a service they get from Microsoft. So our current translation of their website will be the last human translation effort that goes in to their website... Or wait, no, they'll need us to go over the whole thing because machines tend to make funny mistakes. I personally think overall, so much more texts are being produced to translate, that machine translation won't really slow down the growth described in the article.

I hope the predictions in the article accurate, that would be great. ▲ Collapse
 
Alison Sparks (X)
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французский => английский
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Post editing Dec 20, 2012

Perhaps it would be a good idea to add "expertise in post editing machine translations" to one's profile? If one believes this article, then I have my doubts that growth will continue in the most common European pairs. Maybe I should learn Chinese properly or Malay or Urdu?
 


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