Official Languages committee  Perhaps because of a lack of understanding of the tool and how exactly it can be used.

Official Languages committee  That's right.

Official Languages committee  More specifically, I would say that this tool should not be used for any communications. We know that where there is a communication, there is distribution. This is a tool that helps someone who does not know the other language to have an idea of what a document contains.

Official Languages committee  It's basic and that's the issue of official languages.

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  It's important to explain that machine translation presents advantages in terms of speed. The tool helps to give an idea of a document's content, but it is important to stress that it cannot be used in any communications because it does not respect the principle of official langu

Official Languages committee  That's where the issue lies.

Official Languages committee  An enormous amount of translation and communications are done in the world.

Official Languages committee  Clearly, it contributes to gains in productivity. Let's take the case of weather reports. I don't know how many people are on this team currently, but there were seven translators when I was there. If humans had to do this work without using machine translation, it would have ta

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. It's mainly because meteorologists are heard describing the day's gloomy weather only one way, and the machine regurgitates that description.

Official Languages committee  I'll make a brief comment and then pass things over to my colleague. It's a centre that was created at the urging of several federal agencies, including the Translation Bureau. Mr. Bernardi will give you the facts.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. You have a presentation in front of you. I will go through it to review the issue of machine translation and to try to answer the following question: why make an imperfect tool available to all federal public servants? I will also talk about the Bureau’s ma