Wednesday, May 3, 2023

A Chatbot Experiment

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  In the previous post we lauded some of the wonders of which the new generation of chatbots is capable. In this post it we will look at s...
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Friday, March 24, 2023

ChatGPT on Child Translators and Bilingualism

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    If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT you must have been sleeping for the past two months. Never has software or firmware caused such a k...
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Friday, February 3, 2023

Bruce McHafffie, Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Machine Translation

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    This post is intended as a tribute to one of my students, Bruce McHaffie , whose pioneering thesis has been relegated to the obliv...
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Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Arabic Interpreter Who Saved A Thousand Jews

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  Si Kaddour Benghabrit   In January 2019, in a post on this blog celebrating 100 years of conference interpreting, there was a mention ...
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Friday, December 2, 2022

Child Braille

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                                            Sebastian Filoramo   A recent report in several news sources about a 12-year-old blind Venez...
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Sunday, November 6, 2022

The Natural Translation Hypothesis: Theory or Paradigm?

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  This is another theory post. Many moons ago, early in the pandemia, the dean of church interpreting research, Jonathan Downie , in a fri...
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Language Brokering and the Pandemic in Canada

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Regular readers of this blog are familiar with the concept and practice of child language brokering (CLB). It's the translating and i...
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