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"Et tu, ©ompute?" Or, Is Text Translation by Machines an Act of Breach or Revolution?
Published on Jan 11, 20133904 Views
Walter Benjamin, one of the first thinkers to articulate a clear need to think about the new regimes created by the powers of mechanical reproduction, wrote in his essay "The Translator's Task" ("Die
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Is Text Translation by Machines an Act of Breach or Revolution?00:00
Walter Benjamin00:16
"The Translator's Task” (1923)00:37
“a real translation is transparent” like looking at the text through a window01:04
“transparent rendering” is mostly how we think about translation as a legal matter (1)01:20
“transparent rendering” is mostly how we think about translation as a legal matter (2)01:33
FAHQT: Fully Automated High Quality Machine Translation01:57
Warren Weaver to Rockefeller Foundation July 15, 194902:45
“The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation” by Gary Stix03:28
“Transparent” is the goal Reality is translucent03:49
What inspired Weaver?04:12
Nobert Wiener Father of Cybernetics04:55
Globalization driver05:00
Internet Users by Language 2011 -in million users05:25
List of countries on Facebook06:08
Over 7,000 languages in the world06:25
Internet Users by Language06:54
Languages, other than respondents' own, that are used on the Internet07:09
Salvador Oliva07:35
Translation as a “Mirror”08:24
“A real translation is transparent; it does not cover the original, does not black its light, but allows the pure language ..."08:48
Prior to circa 1910, a translation was not a “copy” under Copyright Law09:11
Copyright (i.e., as intangible property right) is a “modern” concept09:54
Despite wavering from 1886 to 1908, Berne finally settled on clear rights … or maybe not11:41
Ambivalence arising out of a balancing of competing policies/concerns11:50
The intellectual commons (1)13:38
Translation (the old fashioned way)13:57
Top 5 Translation Service Providers14:18
Example of a “Top 100” Global Brand: Philips Consumer Lifestyle Group14:23
“Translation Machine”14:53
From Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936)15:26
Machine as Driver of Commerce Machine as Liberator15:43
“Et tu, Brute.”16:14
Translation as a “dagger”17:15
Translation as a scapel17:22
“A real translation is transparent; ..."17:26
“words rather than sentences”17:40
“Scalpel”ing the essential ideas out of the realm of language17:47
The intellectual commons (2)18:03
Value of “open” knowledge18:22
Open data18:46
From “Rights Statement on Web of Data” Leigh Dodds, Talis19:04
The intellectual commons (3)19:21
Person who operates the machine20:40
Person who builds the machine21:32
The machine22:11
“Computer-Generated Works”22:19
U.S. Copyright Office’s “Compendium”22:37
No one owns what the machine creates22:46
Anticipates (and reflects) our ambivalence over a cybernetic future23:04
“I have worried a good deal about the probable naivete of the ideas ..."23:27
“Where a text is identical with truth or dogma, where it is supposed to be "the true language”…23:52
Thank you24:36