Machine translation (MT) is experiencing a renaissance. On one hand,
machine translation is becoming more common and used in ever larger scale, on
the other hand many translators have an almost hostile attitude towards machine
translation programs and those translators who use MT as a tool. Either it is
assumed that the MT can never be as good as a human translation or machine
translation is viewed as the ultimate enemy of the translator and as a job killer. The
article discusses with various examples the limits and possibilities of machine
translation. It demonstrates that machine translation can be better than human
translations – even if they were made by experienced professional translators. The
paper also reports the results of a test that showed that translation customers must
expect that even well-known and expensive translation service providers deliver a
quality that is on par with poor MT. Overall, it is argued that machine translation
programs are no more and no less than an additional tool with which the translation
industry can satisfy certain requirements. This abstract was also – as the entire
article – automatically translated into English.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:80386 |
| Date | 12 August 2022 |
| Creators | Schmitt, Peter A. |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10 |
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