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You, human – Having got us thinking like robots in his previous article, Michael Farrell explains the solutions – and the thinking behind them

Michael FarrellPosted on Posted in Academic publications

Abstract

In the article ‘I, robot’ in the May-June Bulletin, I left you with two puzzles and a provocative question (‘Do these puzzles demonstrate that, given enough examples…, it is always possible to translate accurately between two languages that you do not know without understanding the meaning of the sentence you need to translate?’). The idea behind the puzzles was to get you thinking like machines, and the purpose of the provocative question was, well, to provoke.

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ITI Bulletin, July-August 2024

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Michael Farrell is primarily a freelance translator and transcreator. Over the years he has acquired experience in the cultural tourism field and in transcreating advertising copy and press releases, chiefly for the promotion of technology products. Besides this, he is also an untenured lecturer in post-editing, machine translation and computer tools for translators at the International University of Languages and Media (IULM), Milan, Italy, the developer of the terminology search tool IntelliWebSearch, a qualified member of the Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters (AITI) and a member of Mediterranean Editors and Translators.