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Introduction published In: Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable Machine Translation
Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny and Félix do Carmo
[Translation Spaces 9:1] 2020
► pp. 1–11

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Introduction

Fair MT

Towards ethical, sustainable machine translation

ORCiD logo with link | Dublin City University
ORCiD logo with link | Dublin City University
ORCiD logo with link | University of Surrey


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Published online: 17 August 2020
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Article outline
  • Ethics, sustainability and machine translation
  • The contributions
  • Envoi
  • References
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