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Salman Rostami
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Canada
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English to Persian (Farsi)
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oh my God! Aug 3, 2010

Oh my God! It seems that we will disappear in some years! IBM is working on a text to text translation system very seriously. I think I have to learn some new skills else than translation to rely on after 5 or 6 years from now!
 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Thailand
Local time: 00:16
English to Thai
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Another grade of translation Aug 3, 2010

I remember Internet history where military was the initial inventor. Now Internet is used globally. If the military TRANSTAC system becomes practical, we the human translators need to study more to compete with new translation demand. The problem is "how we will seek and respond to newer demand." I anticipate that translation demand will diversify region by region. Or we will need to fight with niche market demand.

Regards,

Soonthon L.
 


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