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Will technology replace interpreters ? | ||
Tags: Interpreting | Career | ||
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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5454 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 17 of 18 20 September 2013 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Chess is logical and follows strict rules, language is much more flexible (which is why machine translation works quite well with controlled language, but not with natural language). In Jeopardy, answers are either right or wrong, but language is never black or white, it's full of nuances, assumptions that are not expressed, cultural references, double meanings, wordplays etc. Human language is much, much more complex than chess and Jeopardy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5166 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 18 of 18 20 September 2013 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Before computers take over interpreters, I do imagine -- and I'm looking forward to it! -- that computers
could aid in transcribing speech and finding equivalent vocabulary on the fly, thus assisting interpreters in the booth. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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