Google releases TensorFlow tutorial to help developers build their own Neural Machine Translation System

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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)  Identity Verified
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Excellent tool Jul 23, 2017

The Neural Machine Translation System is the latest MT to assist translators for more productivity. I support this movement and I am an advocate of latest technology to help human translators.
I am going to be 65 years old. This is why I need to move proactively.

Dr. Soonthon Lupkitaro
Bangkok, Thailand


 
LilianNekipelov
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Thre is nothing to support versus not support Jul 23, 2017

If it helps it helps, if it doesn't it doesn't, as simple as that. more testing would have to be done. No MT can translate on its own, that's for sure. Perhaps it can help with phrases.

 
Mirko Mainardi
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Translators' perspective Jul 23, 2017

LilianNekipelov wrote:

If it helps it helps, if it doesn't it doesn't, as simple as that. more testing would have to be done. No MT can translate on its own, that's for sure. Perhaps it can help with phrases.


IMHO the question is: who does it help?

From a translators' perspective, I consider all that can facilitate the spreading of MT usage as bad news, firstly (short term), because that will result in more MTPE jobs vs. translation jobs, and secondly (long term), because it will further increase interest, research and investments in MT, and in the end what we're talking about here is machines doing our job.


 
Philippe Etienne
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Machine translation... Jul 24, 2017

...is the future of translation, and will always be.

Philippe


 
Natalia Pedrosa
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Sorry Philippe Jul 24, 2017

I regret not consenting with you.

Machine translation CAN NEVER REPLACE human translation.

And I hope so for the good of all of us.

Cheers!


 
Frank Zou
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Not gonna happen Jul 25, 2017

This endless argument has been years and continues. I'd like to see the result. Let's talk with facts.
MT is and will always be supplement instead of replacement.


 
Philippe Etienne
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You should Aug 7, 2017

Natalia Pedrosa wrote:

I regret not consenting with you.

Pay attention to the part after the comma.
Flying cars have been talked about for centuries, and still no skyways.

Philippe


 
Jean Dimitriadis
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I agree Aug 7, 2017

Philippe Etienne wrote:

Machine translation

...is the future of translation, and will always be.

Philippe


Brilliantly well put!


 
Mirko Mainardi
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The devil is in the detail Aug 7, 2017

Jean Dimitriadis wrote:

Philippe Etienne wrote:

Machine translation

...is the future of translation, and will always be.

Philippe


Brilliantly well put!


Hadn't noticed it. Very clever.

Let's hope you're right...


P.S. It seems AI don't like human language(s) anyway, so maybe they'll decide it's not even worth learning (and translating) it... or maybe at some point they'll force us to communicate in 0s and 1s...


 
Maria da Glória Teixeira
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Interesting.... Aug 23, 2017

Machine translation.

 
Philippe Etienne
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For the record Aug 24, 2017

Jean Dimitriadis wrote:
Brilliantly well put!


Mirko Mainardi wrote:
...Very clever.

I also find it a nice and concise summary of this MT business, but I didn't coin this phrase. I'm not that clever or brilliant.
I saw it the first time quite a few years ago (10?) as the catchphrase of a former PM of a large European agency. Don't know either if he was the author.

But I believe it's still current!

Philippe


 


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