machine translation
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3.5
- noun
- /məˈʃin trænˈsleɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
traducción automática
- It's one of the problems with machine translation from natural language into precise formal language.
- neural machine translation
So I think machine translation drove sequence to sequence.
- So I think machine translation drove sequence to sequence.
Examples
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"I'm a great believer in machine translation," Tsuyoshi said to the tall man from New Zealand.
Fiction book (1998) -
After all, even if you are a speaker of a "language of limited diffusion," you can now use machine translation to "translate" just about anything into your language.
Blog text (24) -
I thought machine translation could be used for this.
Fiction book (1998) -
But the time for machine translation has come.
Blog text (30) -
People are simply waiting for machine translation that will work just like human translators.
Blog text (24) -
The next step is to leverage that data and neural networks for purposes like voice recognition, object recognition, and improved machine translation.
Blog text (26) -
There is simply far too much content in far too many languages needed by far too many people to put off the aggressive integration of machine translation into the global content workflow.
Blog text (30) -
We see that neural machine translation has greatly reduced the gap between AI methods and human translators, although a substantial gap in quality remains.
Academic text (2017) -
Machine translation has long been the butt of jokes and the object of scorn among professional translators and language purists.
Blog text (30) -
Many businesses use machine translation to quickly translate documents into multiple languages.
Synonyms
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3.2
A software tool that changes written or spoken words from one language into another instantly
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4.8
A computer program that translates text or speech from one language to another
Antonyms
How Automatic
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the use of computers to translate' is directly and transparently built from 'machine' (an apparatus or system) + 'translation' (rendering text into another language), so a learner who knows both words will infer that it means translation done by machines. This compositional pattern (machine + task) is common and cross-linguistically obvious, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The compound noun machine translation comes from the simple idea of a machine doing a human translation: imagine a box or computer that takes text in one language and turns it into another. That's why the phrase now means 'using computers to translate automatically'.