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Journalists writing about machine translation always lean on the proposition that MT will one day put professional translators out of business. Just as likely, ubiquitous availability of “good enough” translation will do the opposite. Here is why.vantin without prescription
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Disaster relief workers from across the globe continue to arrive in Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean nation last week. In addition to feet on the ground, the international community is also lending financial support — Europe has pledged more than US$500 million in relief funds and President Obama has […]

 
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2009 was filled with charitable acts by language service providers (LSPs), globalization software vendors (GSVs), and others in the language industry. While not all companies feel comfortable broadcasting their good deeds, the receiving organizations actually encourage them to trumpet their donations — it increases awareness of the services offered by the recipients, thus driving more […]

 
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Nataly Kelly 18 November 2009
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This week, “unfriend” was chosen as the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year. In multilingual circles, this quickly prompted many — including us — to ask the question, “How do you translate that?” According to major media outlets (including the Telegraph, MSNBC, and many others), the term originated with Facebook. So, we went […]