Machine translation is the method of translating documents without any human intervention. Machine translation is the process where a computer program analyzes a source text and generates a target text. Utilizing computers to perform translation in various languages is extremely required in today's fast pace world in particular applications though it also has got its own restrictions. In some situations machine translation is suitable whereas in other cases human translation is more suitable. But, machine translation is not done completely without human intervention. Human intervention will be in the form of pre-editing and post-editing.
Few benefits of machine translations are:
Few benefits of machine translations are:
- Machine translations work with more speed than human translations.
- Machine translation provides drop dead consistency. This means that a person need not worry regarding taking of too much creative license with translation or a translator overlooking how a particular word was translated in the earlier pages. MT will translate that certain word in the same method. But the drawback is MT will display the same error many times unless and until it is asked not to do.
- Machine translation is relatively cheaper. The cost is just for of the tool and its installation.
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