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To: af_vet_1981
No substitute when the translators are lying? Gimme a break. Machines can be back-up with redundant translations to catch fraud? Why not when lives are on the line?

MT has its place as a tool of tranlators and research will continue but there is no current substitute for a qualified human translator when lives are on the line.

131 posted on 01/07/2004 8:09:06 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: GOPJ
No substitute when the translators are lying? Gimme a break. Machines can be back-up with redundant translations to catch fraud? Why not when lives are on the line?

You are mixing two different issues, competency and loyalty.

Machine Translation (MT) is not yet sophisticated enough in the languages we are discussing to translate, much less detect fraud. There is, as yet, no substitute for qualified human translators.

132 posted on 01/07/2004 8:16:26 AM PST by af_vet_1981
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