Podcasts Culture Motherfoclóir 31: #31 | See Ya Later, Machine Translator

31: #31 | See Ya Later, Machine Translator

Published: March 23, 2018, 5:45 p.m.

Teresa Lynn is a computational linguist who specialises in technology and Irish language. She visits Darach, Gear\xf3id\xedn and Ola on today's episode to defend machine translation from all the misguided criticism it's been getting. She also talks about how systems like Bing and Google Translate work, emergency translation and the phenomenon of code switching.\n\nYou can find out more about her work here:\n\nhttp://www.computing.dcu.ie/~tlynn/\n\n--- \n\nContact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices