Perfect machine translation/Native speakers recognize themselves
am 18.10.2004 von http://transblawg.euEinwandfreie englische Computer-Übersetzung. Professor Lenz comments on my OneLook entry: Okay, this is off topic, but it might be of interest to note for you that the problem …
Interpreting errors continued/u.a. Dolmetschen
Transblawg / Continuing the topic of incorrect interpreting (see earlier entry), Roger Shuy takes up the topic at Language Log. A few years ago I encountered this problem in a case in which English transcripts of Spanish speakers in undercover tape recordings we…
Entry on machine translation for weblogs/Automatische Übersetzung für Weblogs
Transblawg / In Andrew Joscelynes Weblog Blogos, zu Sprachtechnologien, ist ein Eintrag auf Englisch über den Gebrauch von Übersetzungssystemen bei Weblogs. Andrew Joscelyne has an entry in Blogos on possibilities for machine translation in weblogs. One…
Translation request / Anfrage
Transblawg / This Friday morning at ten past ten I had a phone call from a local translation agency I don’t know. Die Stadt Nürnberg bringt ein Bildband über die Stadt heraus. Der zu übersetzende Text ist etwa zwölf Seiten lang in Word.…
Native speakers a hindrance
Transblawg / A survey by David Graddiol, commissioned by the British Council, on Global English: Global English is often compared to Latin, a rare historical parallel to English in the way that it fl ourished as an international language after the decline of the…
Translation weblogs / Übersetzerweblogs
Transblawg / Some years ago, searching for weblog + translation usually led to sites dealing with the translation of computer programs in computer languages. Now there are many more human-language translation weblogs and it's hard to keep up with them. Maske…
Translation god sought in Düsseldorf / Übersetzer mit englischer Muttersprache in Düsseldorf gesucht
Transblawg / Only for native speakers of English who can translate marketing, technology, finance and economics and have two foreign languages in addition to German, several years experience, including interpreting and language teaching, to say nothing of se…
The cost of translation
Transblawg / Mark Liberman at Language Log mentions a translation company that offers Latin - German translations. They’re called 24 hour translations and were in the UK, but apparently have relocated to Austria. Mark comments on their prices: But it was so…
