Machine Translation: Investigation of the Limits and Potentialities of Machine Translation in Some Concrete Cases
Keywords:
automatic translation tools, errors, machine translations, linguists, high-quality translations, human intervention, post-editing phase, verbal language, non-verbal language, language and communicationAbstract
The role of automatic translation tools in the globalized market is more and more pervasive, with the potential consequences of errors and mistakes in machine translations. The interest in machine translation has shifted from being a field of work for computer scientists to being more typical of the humanities area of translators and linguists. While machine translation saves time, it is considered incapable of producing high-quality translations. The article details experiments conducted to explore and compare the potential, limitations, and characteristics of some of the most common online machine translators. The experiments showed that human intervention, specifically in the post-editing phase, is necessary to varying degrees depending on the raw text obtained by different automatic translators. The article also discusses the importance of factors such as the cultural context in which the source text originated, the writer's system of thoughts and patterns, and their use of verbal and non-verbal language in language and communication. Possible future developments in the field of machine translation are also hypothesized.
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