Machine Translation and Translation Theory

Focused on both Neural Machine Translation tools, such as Google Translate, and generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Omri Asscher pursues the juncture between machine translation and the diverse, often competing, frameworks of human translation theory.

Omri Asscher is Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His work explores the practical, theoretical, and ethical implications of machine translation for intercultural communication in our time. He also studies the historical roles literary and theological translation play in homeland-diaspora frameworks.

Acknowledgments 1 The ideas of man in the age of machines: Translation as key 2 Definitions: Demarcating the field 3 Equivalence: Target-orientedness to the rescue 4 Aesthetics: The shrinking shadow of the source text 5 Ethics: Approaching explicit ethical agency? 6 Cross-cultural communication: Implications of non-human mediation 7 Beyond theory, towards history Index