At this year’s CEGLOC virtual conference, I watched a couple of presentations about the role of Machine Translation (MT) in language teaching and learning. They got me thinking again about a subject I’ve written about a few times before and also edited an article on. Here are a few key assumptions about the intersection of … Continue reading More Meditations on Machine Translation

I was somewhat surprised by several comments on social media in response to my last post, The War Against Machine Translation. Many of the comments spoke out in defense of machine translation (MT). In retrospect, some of the claims I made in my first post were a little far reaching. I’d like to address some … Continue reading The Rise of Machine Translation

The problem of machine translation As language teachers, it seems that every day we have to battle the pernicious force of machine translation (MT). In 1997, Alta Vista launched Babelfish, one of the first web-based interfaces for MT. Twenty years later, it seems like every web portal, social network, and search engine offers some kind … Continue reading The War Against Machine Translation