Concept information
Preferred term
machine translation
Definition
- Any computer-based process that transforms (or helps a user to transform) written text from one human language into another. (CMU School of Computer Science)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- computer-aided translation
- custom machine translation
- data-driven machine translation
- dialogue-based machine translation
- factored machine translation
- fully automatic high quality translation
- human-aided machine translation
- hybrid machine translation
- interactive machine translation
- machine-aided human translation
- post-editing
- pre-editing
- raw translation
- rule-based machine translation
Synonym(s)
- automatic translation
- MT
Example
- By applying MT to all new words on average a 5-10% productivity improvement was gained. (Skadinš, Purinš, Skadina & Vasiljevs, 2011)
- They concluded that MT allowed translators to improve their throughput on average by 74%. (Skadinš, Purinš, Skadina & Vasiljevs, 2011)
- Thus the problem of dictionary size is not a critical one in machine translation. (Brown, 1962)
In other languages
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-FDWPZPFW-0
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