When is a Translation not a Translation?

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 16:30pm - Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 18:00pm

room B17, Computational Science and Engineering Building, Johns Hopkins University

natural language processing

A translation is generally taken to be a text that expresses the same meaning as another text in a different language. But the products of the best translators reflects a different, if more illusive, goal. I will seek a somewhat more adequate characterization of translation as it is actually practiced and discuss its consequences for machine translation.

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