The Role of the Translator in the Era of Neural Machine Translation
As Neural Machine Translation (NMT) achieves unprecedented levels of fluency, the ontological definition of the ‘translator’ is undergoing a radical shift. Early translation theories, such as Eugene Nida’s functional equivalence, assumed human cognition was the sole engine of linguistic transfer. The Post-Human Turn Contemporary scholars argue we have entered the ‘post-human’ era of translation (Cronin, 2013). The translator… Read More »
