http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/ An Irreverent Look at the Glocalized World Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-252249 Social Translation and the News Industry | We Blog The World Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:46:58 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-252249 [...] (Wait a minute, there’s still a news industry?) Portnoy began by discussion by recounting his personal journey as Global Voices’ first volunteer translator. He liked both the ethos and the content of Global Voices, he said, and wanted to introduce it to [...] [...] (Wait a minute, there’s still a news industry?) Portnoy began by discussion by recounting his personal journey as Global Voices’ first volunteer translator. He liked both the ethos and the content of Global Voices, he said, and wanted to introduce it to [...]

]]> http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-251949 Translational Communication News Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:10:59 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-251949 [...] A good alternative is a recent summit attempted to bring together different projects, an initiative for open translation tools, which has just started. Ethan Zuckerman reports from the summit that “there was widespread agreement that Google’s machine translation tools were far from perfect – and sometimes farcically bad – they’ve been getting lots better and some participants wondered whether we should be putting the effort into building new social translation systems if they’re going to obviate all our work in a few years. Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to stop work because we think Google might be working on the same issues.” And David Sasacki describes why Global Voices decide to opt for open translation tools. [...] [...] A good alternative is a recent summit attempted to bring together different projects, an initiative for open translation tools, which has just started. Ethan Zuckerman reports from the summit that “there was widespread agreement that Google’s machine translation tools were far from perfect – and sometimes farcically bad – they’ve been getting lots better and some participants wondered whether we should be putting the effort into building new social translation systems if they’re going to obviate all our work in a few years. Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to stop work because we think Google might be working on the same issues.” And David Sasacki describes why Global Voices decide to opt for open translation tools. [...]

]]> http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-241310 El Oso Blogs the OTT Conference « Global Voices Translation Exchange Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:57 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-241310 [...] with little pop up photos and a small cartoon of a bear peering Kilroy-like over a wall, click here. Or just keep reading [...] [...] with little pop up photos and a small cartoon of a bear peering Kilroy-like over a wall, click here. Or just keep reading [...]

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