Translation in real time, in reality “near real time”, carried out by specialized software, is aprocess not yet operational, requiring simultaneously control in three main steps to be performed for each group of spoken words in a few tenths of … Read More
Parallel text, or multilingual concordance, is a computer tool for managing parallel corpus. By metonymy, the multilingual concordance also designates the corpus. A parallel corpus is a collection of texts by groups such as two by two in each group, … Read More
Approaches Direct approach: word for word translation of the source text to the target text reformulation of the word order in the target text translated Interlanguage approach: construction of the interlingua representation of the source text construction of the target … Read More
Ambiguities in the source language Lexical ambiguities: polysemy. In The Challenge of Languages, Claude Piron said that May 4, 1991 he asked a machine to translate in French: In such a case, you can make a very good case for … Read More
(Vauquois Triangle, model for the foundation of the machine translation) The translation process (in the human sense) can be divided into three phases: understanding: assimilation of the meaning conveyed by a text, the mean of a writer …; deverbalisation: forgetting … Read More
A translation memory is a database of text segments, and these segments equivalent in another language. It can store and reuse segments of sentence. In this case it is about computer-assisted translation (CAT) rather than machine translation generally used to … Read More
The term ” machine translation ” means translation in the strict sense of a text (or audio chat, live or delayed) made entirely by one or more computer programs, without a human translator has to intervene. Sometimes this term includes … Read More
Computer-assisted translation (CAT) is an area that straddles the translation and computer. Not to be confused with machine translation , which is a challenge for many generations of scientists: in the computer-assisted translation, it is a human who translated, but … Read More
Across Systems, based in Karlsbad, Germany, and Glendale, California, is the manufacturer of the Across Language Server, an independent technology for the linguistic supply chain. Across Systems, originally a division of Nero AG, was incorporated as Across Systems GmbH in … Read More
BLEU has frequently been reported as correlating well with human judgement,[1][2][3] and remains a benchmark for the assessment of any new evaluation metric. There are however a number of criticisms that have been voiced. It has been noted that although … Read More
The following table compares the amount of languages which the following machine translation programs can translate between. (Moses allows to train translation models for any language pair, though collections of translated texts (parallel corpus) need to be provided.) This is … Read More
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