Translation Technologies Collection
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type: Operation
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member: Machine Translation

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Operation
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Machine Translation
type: Concept
type: Operation
type: Named individual
alternative label: Automated Translation
alternative label: MT
alternative label: Automatic Translation
alternative label: Computer Translation
definition: Machine Translation (MT) is the fully automatic translation from one human language into another one. Machine translation has been worked on since the 1950s. There are a number of commercial products available and in daily use, but there are still open research problems. Tranfer-based MT has a set of transfer rules for each language pair, so that n*(n-1) rule sets are necessary for MT between n languages. In contract, interlingua-based MT uses a language-independent representation into which all source languages are analysed and from which all target languages is generated. Most practically usable MT systems are tranfser-based. Recently, there have been interestinv developments in statistical MT algorithms which are trained on parallel corpora of translated texts, and are very useful for constructing MT systems for new language pairs.
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comment: The automatic translation of a text from one language into another performed by software without human involvement
broader: Translation

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Translation
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type: Operation
type: Concept