By Jessica Bown – Technology of Business reporter Put crottin de chèvre into Google Translate, and you’ll be told it means goat dung. So if it appeared on a menu, you might pass. Alas, you would be ruling out a delicious cheese made of goat’s milk that is often served as a starter in France. …
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Afrikaans into Khmer? No problem. Hungarian into Punjabi? Easy peasy. Once the realm of pure science fiction, new technology that allows people to communicate instantly with each other using different languages is now a reality – and it’s poised to change the world. That at least is the bold claim made by experts amid rapid …
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While artificial intelligence is expected to dominate international business translation, people will act as translators of tone, emotion and culture. BY SOPHIE CHARARADECEMBER 10, 2018 With the help of parallel text datasets such as Wikipedia, European Parliament proceedings and telephone transcripts from South Asia, machine-learning has now reached the point where translation tools rival their human counterparts. According …
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