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Machine Translation of Einstein's Biography in Japanese
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Aug 1, 2011

Recently, Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" has been published in Japanese in 2 volumes.
But readers pointed out as reviews on the website of amazon.co.jp that the translation of the 2nd volume seems to have been done by a machine translation.
(I could not find any reviews on this book on amazon and I found only the first volume.)
The publisher has called in the second volume.

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Recently, Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" has been published in Japanese in 2 volumes.
But readers pointed out as reviews on the website of amazon.co.jp that the translation of the 2nd volume seems to have been done by a machine translation.
(I could not find any reviews on this book on amazon and I found only the first volume.)
The publisher has called in the second volume.

News on this topic (in Japanese)
http://www.j-cast.com/2011/08/01103147.html

According to the news, there was the following text as translation in the second volume:"数数千が、訪問代表団と会合するためにユニオン列車車庫に群がった、そして、パレードは200台の酔っぱらっていて旗の包茎の車を含んでいた".
That is only an example.
The publisher let "科学系某翻訳グループ (a scientific translation group? Maybe there would be another better translation)" translate a part of the second volume.
In internet, it was pointed out that one can get the same translation result from the English original text by a machine translation that provides a portal site (maybe google?) as the translation in the second volume.

It is very pity that such a translated book has been published.
Clients nowadays want to save money for translation, but I think that to save money is not to keep translation quality. ▲ Collapse
 


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