Fair MT: Building ethical and sustainable MT workflows
WORKSHOP AT MT SUMMIT 2019 AT THE HELIX, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY
Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny, and Félix do Carmo. Now available in print and from the Translation Spaces site. Table of Contents Introduction – Dorothy Kenny, Joss Moorkens and Félix do Carmo “A tiny cog in a large machine”: Digital Taylorism in the translation industry – Joss Moorkens “Time is money” and the value…
Vol. 9(1) July 2020 Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny, and Félix do Carmo Since the well-publicised advent of neural MT, many more language service providers have begun to offer raw and post-edited MT as a reduced-cost option among their suite of products (Lommel and DePalma 2016). The level of automation in translation is usually…
This workshop took place on August 20th 2019 at MT Summit XVII. 14:00 Welcome 14:05 Translating perceptions and managing expectations: an interview study on the role of MT in translation production networks [Abstract, Slides]Lucas Nunes Vieira, Elisa Alonso 14:30 Promoting ethical and sustainable use of MT in the translation industry: A case in Japan [Abstract, Slides]Akiko…
We were delighted with the response to our call for abstracts. The following have been accepted for presentation at the workshop on August 20th. Implementing MTPE into a real industrial scenario: what do translators need for a fair MT workflow?Sergi Alvarez, Antoni Oliver, Toni Badia Consequences of automation in the translation supply chainFélix do Carmo…
Research on MT has tended to focus on building systems to maximise the quality of output, evaluating that output in a cost-effective way, along with various forms of pre- and post-processing of texts. There has been little focus on the origin of training data or the sort of workflows that these MT systems would be…