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Main Author: Weber, Steven
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01007
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author Weber, Steven
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contents This paper explores the hypothesis that the diversity of human languages, right now a barrier to interoperability in communication and trade, will become significantly less of a barrier as machine translation technologies are deployed over the next several years.But this new boundary-breaking technology does not reduce all boundaries equally, and it creates new challenges for the distribution of ideas and thus for innovation and economic growth.
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spellingShingle The 2020s Political Economy of Machine Translation
Weber, Steven
Computers and Society
Computation and Language
This paper explores the hypothesis that the diversity of human languages, right now a barrier to interoperability in communication and trade, will become significantly less of a barrier as machine translation technologies are deployed over the next several years.But this new boundary-breaking technology does not reduce all boundaries equally, and it creates new challenges for the distribution of ideas and thus for innovation and economic growth.
title The 2020s Political Economy of Machine Translation
topic Computers and Society
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01007