Teaching Translation in the age of Google Translate
Translation Seminar Series - No 15 in Professor Pym's Translation series
Computer programs no longer merely execute a set of rules to produce a translation (Rule-based Machine Translation) nor do they simply generate a translation by processing statistics from large corpora (Statistical Machine Translation). Today, deep learning AI technology allows a computer to analyse large databases, figure out how to produce a translation and rectify its output on an on-going basis to obtain an increasingly accurate result. (Neural Machine Translation).
Many post-secondary institutions offer translation courses as credits for undergraduate degrees. But is it still relevant to teach translation today when Neural Machine Translation programs like Google Translate can provide high quality translations in an instant?
Date: Wednesday 25 September
Time: 5.15pm
Venue: William MacMahon Ball Theatre, Room 107, Old Arts (Building 149)