METM11 plenary talk

Translators: the human element in machine translation

Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland

This talk about the state of the art in machine translation (MT) focuses on issues translators care about, for example: how human translation inputs to MT systems are acknowledged; in what scenarios, language pairs and domains MT is most likely to be successful; what might motivate a translator's decision to cooperate with a machine translation effort; and what kind of skills human translators need to make a shift to post-editing of MT.

Dr. Dorothy Kenny lectures in translation studies at Dublin City University. She has published numerous articles in the area of translation technology, corpus-based translation studies and translation theory.