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Machine translation literacy: Academic libraries' role
Author(s) -
Bowker Lynne
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.108
Subject(s) - literacy , machine translation , information literacy , computer science , academic library , quality (philosophy) , translation (biology) , intervention (counseling) , library science , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , psychiatry , biochemistry , messenger rna , gene
English is the main language of scholarly communication, but most researchers are not native English speakers. Machine translation (MT) technology is advancing, but such tools rarely produce high quality output of specialized text without human intervention. There is an emerging need for MT literacy, and academic librarians are well placed to deliver it. This poster reports the results of an MT literacy workshop delivered at Concordia University Library.