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Can you build your own MT engine?

Conferences, conferences!

Recently, I’ve been quite busy attending several virtual conferences, presenting at some of them, and recording videos to be presented at upcoming conferences in the near future. Two weeks ago I attended and presented at the wonderful virtual conference Together Again (from afar) organized by the Oregon Society of Translators

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Qualitätskontrolle

Translation Slam – Human Versus Machine

Recently, claims have surfaced that neural machine translation (NMT) produces the same quality as human translators, that is, several NMT providers claim to have achieved or even exceeded human parity. In this article I want to investigate these claims of human parity. An introduction to neural machine translation can be

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Vetting potential clients to avoid scams

Scam Alert – Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Scam

This new-ish scam seems to target anyone with a business website, that is, organizations, corporations, businesses, freelancers, etc. The scammers send a warning note through the website contact form or via the stated contact email address. The note contains a warning that the website owner allegedly violated the Digital Millennium

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Robot apocalypse and AI bias

Is neural machine translation sexist?

So, now I have your attention with that title, let’s delve into the real, less anthropomorphizing question: Is neural machine translation (NMT) biased? I was inspired to write this blog post after watching the documentary Coded Bias (available on Netflix) and a follow-up panel discussion entitled “Is AI racist?” (AI

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