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The dawn of machine translation
Very few visionaries in history have imagined tools to speed up and simplify the translator’s task.
Then the electronic computer arrived in the 1950s, not just a number cruncher but a symbol processor. It promised software solutions to almost every problem in translation automation.
After centuries of quill pens and a few decades of typewriters and dictation machines, the world’s translators could finally look forward to the promise of machines to do the heavy lifting.
The dawn of machine translation
Very few visionaries in history have imagined tools to speed up and simplify the translator’s task.
Then the electronic computer arrived in the 1950s, not just a number cruncher but a symbol processor. It promised software solutions to almost every problem in translation automation.
After centuries of quill pens and a few decades of typewriters and dictation machines, the world’s translators could finally look forward to the promise of machines to do the heavy lifting.