Suppliers of translation services often ask us, “What should we do about Google?” Each translation-related announcement that comes out of Mountain View – from Google’s involvement with the European Patent Organization to its recent experiment with automating the translation of poetry – generates plenty of industry discussion. We spoke with Tamar Yehoshua, Google Translate’s director of product management, to gain a deeper perspective on why Google is interested in machine translation, and what the company thinks will happen to human translation as time goes on.

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  Nataly Kelly, Donald A. DePalma
  
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  Supplier Business Issues, Technology, Translation and Localization, Industry Providers, Technology Vendors, Global Leaders
  
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  Localization, Machine interpretation, Machine translation, Translation, Translation technologies