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Machine translation: Why you shouldn’t make it too easy for the program.

7/2/2018

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#2: Simplified English, Plain English & Co.

The basic idea behind writing in a simple style is not new and has been taken up by educators and technical editors worldwide. Simplified (technical) English has been around for a long time, helping staff in technical domains pass on their knowledge (in instruction manuals, product descriptions, safety guides etc.) to non-native users of English. Basic English once found a place in education as a simple style suitable for students learning English as a second language but has been widely criticised as being too restricted. It was consequently superseded by plain English in modern times, a much ‘broader’, much more flexible and versatile concept. Plain English was devised with the aim of making documents, especially legal and government documents and forms clearer and easier to understand. In Germany, the concept of Leichte Sprache (engl. easy language) is based on a similar premise, with accessibility and the inclusion of readers with disabilities very much in the foreground.

What these approaches have in common is that they provide guidelines for creating written texts in such a way that they will be more easily readable for a wide range of readers and thus more easily comprehensible to them. By restricting the use of certain constructions and terms, and by being consistent in the use of a preferred vocabulary and syntax, plain language is thought to become more easily recognisable. In other words, a certain level of standardisation can help make life easier for readers and translators alike. But what about machines? 
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11/3/2018 06:44:28 am

Anything which is easy to operate is also very easy to be infiltrated by hostiles. We must protect our system from any outside threat. We don't want to hear another horror story about client data leaking. No one is that irrelevant. They don't need to be elite just to be given what every client deserves. Next time this keeps happening, we need to make sure we know where to track where did people go wrong. The last thing we need are faulty systems. We need to try our best to keep security at it's most steady performance.

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7/25/2019 08:43:07 am

If you are not very careful, you will wake up one day shocked that you already lost everything while trying to chase the less significant things. I can't believe I wasted so much time looking outside when everything I needed in life is already in front of me. A lot of people would kill or die just to be in my shoes right now and yet I am always the last to appreciate all these things. Maybe I am not the most beautiful woman in the land and maybe I am broke but I still have things a lot of people does not have.

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7/26/2019 04:17:20 am

My Dear,

I can't imagine anyone wanting to be in your shoes right now.

Best,
Alexandra

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11/3/2018 02:40:57 pm

Hi and thank you for your comment!

How true. And I think there are challenges yet to come for all of us seeking to make this world a safer place. I hope that our machines will always have the right guardians. This reminds me of "Person of Interest". Do you know the series?

"...The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us. But victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we'll find you."

Have a nice week!

Yours,

Alexandra

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