March 11, 2010

This week we wrote about Google’s Translate application and how it could eventually change the way people communicate, overcoming the language barriers that have long separated human populations. Franz Josef Och leads the machine translation (MT) team at Google, and has been the driving force behind much of [...]

Watch the COP15 Behind the Scenes film about the UN Interpretation Service at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBySM4Yhzx0&feature=related

Trovate la risposta del Ministro Brambilla alla pagina http://www.aniti.it/vis_news.asp?id=111

“Daniel Stein, traduttore” di Ludmila Ulitskaya, Bompiani
Ispirato a una storia vera, Daniel Stein racconta le vicende di un ebreo polacco sopravvissuto all’Olocausto grazie al lavoro di interprete e traduttore per la Gestapo. In questo modo è riuscito a salvare, oltre a se stesso, anche centinaia di altre vite: perché disponeva di informazioni sconosciute a molti.
Leggi [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sunxX-_TBSQ&feature=related
e la versione rap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkR9VBt1U3s

T he European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather than the other possibility, German.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7VhWem_YT4

Un divertente spot della Berlitz lo trovate al link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsCR9Y4Ymvo

Articolo divertente di Luca Chittaro (Sole24Ore) sulla traduzione automatica. Chi ha altri esempi di questo tipo da condividere?
Articolo

HE HAS almost been cropped from the photograph, and his name is a blank in the key. An interpreter’s lot, perhaps. But there on the extreme left, legs crossed, with his long, intent nose and his immature moustache (he is 22, young for such work), sits Richard Sonnenfeldt……
Il resto dell’articolo lo trovate al seguente link:
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=348996&story_id=14743425