What is Machine Translation?

Technology is moving at a faster pace today than ever before, and many people are left feeling confused. How will new technologies affect creative fields like translation? The American Translators Association has issued a position paper on machine translation (MT) to cut through the hype and explain the uses and limitations of this tool. Here’s…

Saint Jerome Versus the Robot: Thoughts on Machine Translation

Happy International Translation Day! This celebration takes place on September 30 in honor of Saint Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin, and who is the patron saint of translators. Little could Jerome have known, as he sat down to his arduous task, that 1,600 or so years later, machine translation would become a reality.…

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Short Stories for Everyone with Short Edition

Short Edition is a French online publisher making short stories available to readers in French and English. There is a range of genres, including romance and science fiction and fantasy, and the stories are sorted according to how long it takes to read them: 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 5 minutes. In 2016, Short Edition…

Met Museum Makes Trove of Images Available to Public

Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Met, announced yesterday that the museum will make images of public-domain artworks in its collection available for free and unrestricted use. This is a real boon to bloggers, journalists, artists, and Internet users in general. Called Open Access, this policy uses the Creative Commons Zero designation and makes over 375,000…

The Morgan Library Will Put Its Drawings Online

The Morgan Library announced last week that it will put its entire drawings collection online by October 2014. The collection ranges from the 14th to the 21st centuries and is especially strong in Italian Renaissance works, as well as in French, British, Dutch, Flemish, and German drawings. This is exciting news both for scholars and…