April 2022, Mona Baker

Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

April 30, 2022 Mona Baker Books and Journals, Translation

Edited by Mona Baker Copyright Year 2022 ISBN 9780367681968 268 Pages 18 Illustrations Will be available open access in June 2022 This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas,

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Why it’s so damn hard to make AI fair and unbiased

April 25, 2022 Mona Baker Articles

There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other. By Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 April 2022 Let’s play a little game. Imagine that you’re a computer scientist. Your company wants you to design a search engine that will show users a bunch of pictures corresponding to their keywords — something akin to Google Images.

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