Who is afraid of MT?

Autor/in	Schmitt, Peter A.
Titel	Who is afraid of MT?
Quelle	In: Lebende Sprachen, 60 (2015) 2, S. 234-258 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-9909; 1868-0267
DOI	10.1515/les-2015-0010
Schlagwörter	Digitale Medien; Elektronische Medien; Vergleichende Analyse; Automatische Übersetzung; Übersetzung
Abstract	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. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2016/2