Have you heard of neural translation? You should know that it has its foundations in traditional machine translation. This has always been a complex task, given languages’ inherent ambiguity. It’s worth pointing out that a word’s correct translation cannot be predicting by simply consulting a dictionary. Translations must always be based on context, the text’s genre, the translation’s purpose and the target audience, among others. Until recently, not even the best machine translation technologies were able to reach the quality and …
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Machine learning has become essential for digitalization and in order to face up to a new phase in various market niches. Want to discover how its application affects the translation sector? What makes the support of a translator essential for machine learning? You’re bound to have heard that machine learning makes it possible to automate some specific tasks, such as translation, for example. A great example of this is the well-known Google Translate, which now interprets the sentence to be translated …
Machine translation is an inefficient way of adapting texts, as it may jeopardize a company’s reputation. Nowadays, technological advances allow us to translate texts quickly and conveniently. However, this carries a lot of risk, as it’s easy to fall into basic typing errors. Users who actively participate in the world of social media tend to be very demanding with the content they share. Texts that contain translation mistakes will be discarded without a shadow of a doubt. Therefore, if you …
Machine translation may seem very useful if you need to know the meaning of a website’s content, but is it recommended when you need to correctly translate your proposal on the Internet? What are the limitations of machine translation? Before going into what these are, you should know how this type of program works, which started out as a mere dictionary and now seems to have the ability to translate entire sentences or expressions. If you look closely, most of …
Computer assisted translation is a technological resource that, if used well, can be quite useful. Having said that, in the hands of a novice or without proper use, it can bring about problems. The main problem is replacing a professional translation with a machine translation with insufficient levels of quality. Computer assisted translation tools CAT is the abbreviation for computer assisted translation, or a procedure that uses specific software to help those who undertake a translation. It is a valuable …