machine translation
IPA: mʌʃˈintrænzɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (translation studies) The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.
- (computing, programming) The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.
Examples of "machine-translation" in Sentences
- "Welcome aboard Starbase 6, Captain," the slender Human said, in rather good klingonaase, not machine-translation.
- What's great is that both Japanese versions are humanly translated, so the context is not lost in machine-translation, which tends to be too literal.
- Of course, anyone that has ever used Google Translate or Google Voice knows that machine-translation and speech to text systems are still prone to errors.
- According to Dmitriy Genzel, a Google software engineer, the internet's favourite one-stop shop is now working on the machine-translation of not just words, but meter and rhyme.
- In my job, one of our important “readers” is machine-translation software that performs a first pass on text before that text is handed over to actual humans to finish the translation.
- "We're more aware now that the rest of the world is important to us, and we now have the resources available to us," says David Yarowsky, head of Johns Hopkins University's machine-translation efforts.
- The author is French and obviously speaks little or no English; the translation is apparently either with the aid of a dictionary or machine-translation and the result is about as incoherent as you'd expect.
- These folks are piping the output of Babelfish and other machine-translation services into the chat interface and directing the operators to place calls to merchants, directing them to ship goods paid for with stolen credit card numbers to mail-drops.
- Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English.