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A Humanist View of Machine Translation
Human translators have co-existed peacefully with automatic translation for decades, but recent advances in statistical machine translation (SMT, as used in systems like Google Translate) are forcing a reappraisal of this relationship, not least because SMT is based on the recycling of human translations. In this lecture Dr Kenny discusses some ways in which machine translation has become more problematic from a humanist viewpoint.
The lecture will be given at Old Choral Hall 1 (corner of Symonds St and Alfred St) on 28 July 2010 at 6-7:30pm
