1. Automated Translation

2. Text to speech Speech recognition Automated translations

3. Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/trhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/tr –Based on a system by Systran –How accurate are translations? Where do they fail? Where do they succeed? From English to Dutch and back again: Is the translation to be how accurate? Do them fail to where? Do them succeed to where?

4. Another example: Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/trhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/tr –I will be traveling to the Netherlands in June with my two nephews and my 83 year old mother. English to Dutch and back again: –I will travel to the Netherlands in June with my two cousins and my 83 one person whose birthday it is mother. One more time: I to the Netherlands in June with my two cousins and my 83 one person travels of whom anniversary it is mother.

5. Problems Word order Preserving meaning Idioms

6. Some data on the quality of three types of translations (Pérez-Quiñones et al. 2005) –Based on: Structure, Vocabulary (spelling, meaning, cognates), style (consistency, punctuation) and message

7. Some data (Pérez-Quiñones et al. 2005)

9. Applied Translations What are some problems with using this technology for mainstream, commercial use? Where can it be used?

10. The Future Creating rigorous rules-based systems based on thousands of hours of research and coding

11. The Future Creating rigorous rules-based systems based on thousands of hours of research and coding Or let’s just fake it

12. Google Compares texts that have been translated by humans to build a statistical model for translations Asks for both user feedback and users to submit text they have already translated –Getting people to work for free! More information: http://www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html http://www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html

13. Google: http://www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html http://www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html –I will be traveling to the Netherlands in June with my two nephews and my 83 year old mother. –From English to Dutch and back again: –I will travel to the Netherlands in June with my two nephews and my 83 year old mother.

14. Try it yourself! Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr Google: http://www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html#whatis