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Rise of the machine translators (The Economist, Jun 4th 2014)
THOSE passingly familiar with machine translation (MT) may well have reacted in the following ways at some point. “Great!” would be one such, on plugging something into the best-known public and free version, Google Translate, and watching the translation appear milliseconds later. “Wait a second…” might be the next, from those who know both languages. […]
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Found in Translation By HAMID DABASHI (NYT 28/7/2013
THE STONE July 28, 2013, 5:00 The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Though it is common to lament the shortcomings of reading an important work in any language other than the original and of the “impossibility” of translation,