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The Technology of Translation

By Sheilah Kast,
Maureen Harvie
Published January 9, 2018 at 11:21 AM EST
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Computer scientist Philipp Koehn leads a group at Johns Hopkins University that’s building translation technology and targeting languages for which translated texts are not widely available - like Tagalog and Swahili. How do they do it?

More information about the project is available here.

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Sheilah Kast
Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
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