The Great Gap: Will MT ever be on par with human translators?

Episode 41 March 01, 2023 00:17:38
The Great Gap: Will MT ever be on par with human translators?
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The Great Gap: Will MT ever be on par with human translators?

Mar 01 2023 | 00:17:38

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Hosted By

Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

The debate around human parity in machine translation — whether or not we’ll achieve it in our lifetimes and its potential impact on the language services industry — is hotly contested. Here, MultiLingual’s Andrew Warner dives into the history of this topic and gains insight from language industry experts to see how close we are to reaching human parity in MT and what it could mean for human translators.

 

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