Teaching Translation in the Age of Neural Machine Translation

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	Teaching Translation in the Age of Neural Machine Translation
	Venkatesan, H.
	2018-02-01
Source Publication	APLX 2017 at Taipei Tech - Transformation and Development: Language, Culture, Pedagogy and Translation
Pages	39-54
Publication Place	Taipei
Publisher	Crane Publishing
Abstract	Recent advances in Machine translation, notably the development of deep learning systems, known as Neural Machine Translation have vastly improved the quality of translations that can be produced by freely available online MT systems. With specific focus on English-Chinese translation, given that “disposable information” can now be translated by MT systems with minimal post-editing, it appears that technological advances have further tilted the balance towards at least partial replacement of human translators. Given this possibility, translator training must accordingly move towards training translators to efficiently intervene rather than labour in the translation process. This paper argues for a shift in focus, from treating machine translation as an aid, to integration of machine translation in translator training to achieve rapid translations of high quality. Such training may help keeping human translators relevant to the process while improving translation efficiency. The ideas presented here represent no more than a preliminary exploration of the need and forms that such a pedagogy might take.
Keyword	Translator training Machine Translation Disposable Information Post-editing English-Chinese Translation
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	35988
Document Type	Conference paper
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Venkatesan, H.. Teaching Translation in the Age of Neural Machine Translation[C], Taipei:Crane Publishing, 2018, 39-54.
APA	Venkatesan, H..(2018). Teaching Translation in the Age of Neural Machine Translation. APLX 2017 at Taipei Tech - Transformation and Development: Language, Culture, Pedagogy and Translation, 39-54.

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