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Where Do You Live? (City & Country)
Monmouth,Illinois.U.S.A
What Languages Do You Speak?
English, Spanish, Dutch
What Topics Interest You?
Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, English Syntax, Spanish syntax, Dutch lexicography.
About Me:
I am a retired assistant professor of Spanish and English as a Second Language.
Favorite Music:
Medieval, and Classical. Portuguese Fados.

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What role if any should machine translation have in localization?

I have worked as a free-lance translator on some interesting projects from a text in the field of insurance to business letters and an article on De Stijl, a Dutch art movement. I am not sure if a complete machine translation program would have given me good results.

Posted on May 30, 2007 at 9:07am —

John Van Kerk

Text Mining and Lexicography

I have lately started to study text mining. This had led me think about text mining as a tool for lexicographers. I would love to hear from computer science specialists to see if this would be possible.

Posted on May 18, 2007 at 3:12am —

John Van Kerk

Free translation software.

I downloaded a free translation program named TRANSWIZ from Download.com. This is a perfect example of a dictionary translation program. It has no mechanism for resolving ambiguities. In my opinion the only virtue of this program is that a younger generation can see what my colleagues were doing in the area of machine translation.Here are some interesting transformations that take place. A: La casa blanca. B: The house white. This program has a dictionary building section but there is no way in… Continue

Posted on May 15, 2007 at 7:42am —

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At 10:02am on May 30, 2007, martin k. said…
hey john ! thanks for that website compliment ... ;)
 
 

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