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Chan Sin-wai: the future of translation technology: towards a world without Babel

Routledge, New York, 2017, xiii + 301 pp [Routledge Studies in Translation Technology Series], ISBN 978-1-138-84204-5

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This work was supported by the research project “A corpus-based comparative and translational study of abstracts in China’s Scientific Journals” funded by China National Foundation for Social Sciences (No. 11BYY015).

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Qian, D. Chan Sin-wai: the future of translation technology: towards a world without Babel. Machine Translation 31, 257–260 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-017-9199-x

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