How Accurate is Machine Translation?

MT is a method used independently of a human translator to translate text or the spoken word from the source language to the targeted language. It’s been developed to speed up the translation process and has been especially useful for businesses that are wishing to expand overseas to countries that don’t speak their company language. This trend is set to procure this year.

MT is quite simple software as it typically translates word for word without seeing the connection the word has in the sentence. This means the translation isn’t of high quality as it doesn’t recognize a complete phrase or sentence and how this conveys meaning. Of course, there are situations such as a tourist who wants to find out the meaning of a road sign and inputs it into MT software. The end result will probably be something the tourist can at least understand. Other instances where MT may be useful are tweeting, blogging and texting, answering adverts, booking hotel rooms online and taking part in online forums.

 

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