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Luigi Muzii - "Futurists, Visionaries and Wishful Thinkers"
In the preface to The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935), John Maynard Keynes wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” In fact, the translation community is rather close and definitely conservative. This is why, twenty years ago, no one inside the translation industry could actually imagine what it would look like today. In the last twenty years, things have mostly remained the same; few have changed, often thanks to outsiders. The sterile obsession with quality is one of the things remaining unchanged, together with the industry’s typical pulverization. Business models and production processes are also unchanged, together with the hesitancy to adopt any innovations. Yes, in the early ‘90s, the translation community quickly seized the opportunities of the Internet, but the innovation was almost imposed and rather suffered. The same applies to translation memories, still largely doubted and distrusted. On the other hand, the translation community claims to be different, dynamic, innovative, and even ethical. di Luigi Muzii . (fonte: www.s-quid.it/mercanti-illusioni/)
- Siete Norma Desmond, la famosa attrice del muto. Eravate grande. - Io sono sempre grande, è il cinema che è diventato piccolo. Nell’ultimo numero della sua newsletter, dell’ATA Chronicle e dell’ITI Bulletin, Jost Zetsche si chiede perché tanti traduttori che mostrano un profondo interesse per le tecnologie per la traduzione, una volta raggiunto un certo livello di esperienza, cessino di manifestare lo stesso interesse e di sperimentare. Translation : yesterday, today, tomorrow 
From Luxury to Utility The translation technology segment is at a deeply transformative point in its evolution. For one generation the segment was largely comprised of solutions that serviced the professional translation industry. These tools improve the productivity and consistency of human translation and they remain relevant for their steadily growing target market. However, in the last five years the grandfather of all translation automation technologies, machine translation, began to be adopted by the professional industry en masse and is increasingly ubiquitous on the worldwide web. The ubiquity of continuously improving data-driven or statistical machine translation is one of three factors creating a paradigm shift in the demand for translation. In addition, global economic growth is shifting to non-English speaking markets and globalization is leading to previously unseen levels of cultural exchange.
Lo spoglio automatico dei termini può essere effettuato con un approccio linguistico (basato su regole e dizionari) oppure con un approccio statistico (indipendente dalla lingua e basato sulla frequenza) .
The favorite topic of translators is rates, followed, in the last few years, by machine translation. On both topics, nearly every conversation ends up in shouting matches, partisan vitriol, and ideological food fights, even in virtual communities. In the past, the same happened with languages and their relative importance.
A conversation between Paul Sulzberger, divergent thinker and cofounder of NZTC, and Luigi Muzii, contrarian and sQuid‘s strategist. Many of us have a sense of unease from what seem like conflicting signals from the translation marketplace. On the one hand, the demand for translation appears to be increasing worldwide, but on the other, prices appear to be dropping or at least are stagnant[1].
For the last few years quality has been one the most important business. An increasing numbers of companies have been committing themselves to implementing quality management systems. Quality is indeed one of the two favorite topics of linguists in the industry, the other being rates.
Solo due tra i primi dieci paesi del Global Innovation Index 2012 sono asiatici, entrambi con un forte legame con il mondo occidentale, Singapore e Hong Kong. Il primo in classifica di solito è considerato pressoché immobile, la Svizzera. Recentemente, Raytheon BBN Technologies ha incassato altri 5,9 milioni di dollari dal governo federale americano per lo sviluppo di un sistema di traduzione automatica dei documenti in lingua straniera. Il finanziamento copre anche la messa a punto di un sistema portatile per la traduzione automatica dei testi all’interno di immagini. Di recente, sul blog aziendale, Franz Och, il responsabile della ricerca per Google Translate, ha affermato che “oggi, sul pianeta, la maggior parte delle traduzioni è fatta da Google Translate”, ma anche che “le traduzioni più sofisticate o importanti, non c’è niente di meglio di un traduttore umano”.  Il presente articolo è stato estratto dal blog "The Big Wave" , una rivista trimestrale dedicata alle tecnologie linguistiche, pubblicata da sQuid |
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