The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

How good is machine translation?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

David Savignac

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Despite its limitations, there are situations in which the machine does a very good job. However, due to the complexity of the language, there are often cases of mistranslation. Although a human translator is better, steady progress is being made in quality, and the use of machine translation.

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Savignac, David. How good is machine translation?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 213-217 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20806. Date accessed: 19 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20806. Apr 2012

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