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Language technology – threats and opportunities

Language technology development has accelerated rapidly. This is important not only for those who make a living from translation – be it interpreters or translators – but for all businesses that have to relate to different languages. Are the Nordic countries ahead of the curve or are the IT giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft about to take control over important parts of our languages?
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Many languages at once

You only need to spend half an hour walking around the centre of Swedish Uppsala to see how many languages can be found on signs – often a mix of several languages like in "My Gyros - svensk och grekisk fastfood", or in the play on words Su shi fu - The amasian catch. Plays on words are some of the most difficult things to translate.

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