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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.
John Van Kerk's Blog
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 —
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 —
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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