Machine translation, whose abbreviation is MT, is one of the most interesting, useful and complete HLT application.
It is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer softwaretranslate text or speech from one natural language to another to. Using corpus techniques, more complex translations may be attempted, allowing for better handling of differences in linguistic typology, phrase recognition, and translation of idioms, as well as the isolation of anomalies.
There are many online automatic translators such as OpenTrad, Reverso, Lucy or Systran.
Even though these automatic translators make the translation easy for everyone, they have consequences. They translate directly, and, as a result of that, sometimes the translation loses its sense as some words have different meaning depending on the context that the average translator cannot understand.
SOURCES:
- Machine translation. (2009, June 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:12, June 16, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machine_translation&oldid=295950237
- Questionnaire 3 (2009). In Wiki Littera Deusto. Retrieved 10:15, June 16, 2009, from http://wiki.littera.deusto.es/en/index.php/Hlt0809#Questionnaire_3
- Reverso (2009). In Reveerso: Online Translator. Retrieved 10:34, June 17, 2009, from http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.asp?lang=EN
