Machine translation for everyone

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-98554-045-7
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Translation and multilingual natural language processing

Language learning and translation have always been complementary pillars of multilingualism in the European Union. Both have been affected by the increasing availability of machine translation (MT): language learners now make use of free online MT to help them both understand and produce texts in a second language, but there are fears that uninformed use of the technology could undermine effective language learning. At the same time, MT is promoted as a technology that will change the face of professional translation, but the technical opacity of contemporary approaches, and the legal and ethical issues they raise, can make the participation of human translators in contemporary MT workflows particularly complicated. Against this background, this book attempts to promote teaching and learning about MT among a broad range of readers, including language learners, language teachers, trainee translators, translation teachers, and professional translators. It presents a rationale for learning about MT, and provides both a basic introduction to contemporary machine-learning based MT, and a more advanced discussion of neural MT. It explores the ethical issues that increased use of MT raises, and provides advice on its application in language learning. It also shows how users can make the most of MT through pre-editing, post-editing and customization of the technology.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kenny, Dorothy

Über Autor(innen)

Kenny, Dorothy
Dorothy Kenny is full professor of translation studies at Dublin City University (DCU). She holds a BA in French and German from DCU, and an MSc in machine translation and a PhD in language engineering, both from the University of Manchester. Her current research interests include corpus-based analyses of translation and translator style, literary applications of machine translation and approaches to the teaching of translation technology. She is principal investigator on MultiTraiNMT, a European-Union funded strategic partnership that aims to create and disseminate innovative materials for teaching and learning about machine translation. She is co-editor of the journal Translation Spaces and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.