With the wide diversity and assortment of languages in the world, it is very difficult for any individual to know and understand all the languages. Language being the mode of communication, one needs a way to transfer ideas and expressions from one language to other like from English to Chinese. Machine translation is an automated translation method from one language to others. Many tools are available in market for translation, but none of the tools are perfect in terms of translating the document in a manner to allow the original message be reproduced colloquially from one language to other. They only provide the gist of information in the document. Various research organizations are working on Machine Translation systems to bridge the gap of language diversity. But, still a single machine or software is not capable of providing 100% accuracy. To interpret this lets consider English to Chinese translation.
Chinese language is one of the more complicated languages and has three variations, namely, Simplified Chinese, Hong Kong Traditional Chinese and Taiwan Traditional Chinese. Due to these variations, machine translation does not offer the literal English to Chinese translations .Despite accuracy being a de-facto factor, even then many companies use translators in the initial stage of translating English to Chinese and then do manual analysis of the machine translated document , to weed any discrepancy in the document.
Benefits of Machine Translation
The biggest advantage for machine translation is that its throughput is very high. Besides, owing to the complexity of Chinese language, a translator can produce 4000 to 10000 words in a day whereas a human translator may produce 2000 words a day. By machine translation, the huge language translation need in English to Chinese translation can be met on quantity, but for quality, it is not very good as of now. But this doesn't mean that machine translation is of no use, many companies use machine translation to translate English to Chinese and then manual checking is done to vet the English to Chinese translations. Using both modes, initially automated translators and then human intervention can considerably increase the translation \
rate.
Issues with Machine Translator
One of the major issue is since language is inherently evolutionary in nature, it demands regular updates in Machine translation software and if these updates are overlooked in higher versions of Machine Translators, the quality of English to Chinese translations documents is attenuated.
The other major issue lies in the apparent ambiguity of language. For a machine it is very tough to translate a word having two meaning. Since machines till date have not advanced to the degree that would enable them to analyze which meaning suits with which phrase. Most translators use a Guess technique (picking up any meaning randomly) to overcome this issue but this is not really a solution and it demands a manual audit.
Many organizations are working on research and development of machine translations. Hopefully, one-day machines would be able to work individually to provide 100% accurate documents. On internet, online translations are offered by Yahoo (Babelfish), Microsoft (Bing Translator), Google (Google Translate) but all these just give a glimpse of content not complete or 100% accurate translations. Till the day, such a machine is developed, the best course of action remains to use both machine and human translations in unison to generate accurate and speedy results.
Chinese language is one of the more complicated languages and has three variations, namely, Simplified Chinese, Hong Kong Traditional Chinese and Taiwan Traditional Chinese. Due to these variations, machine translation does not offer the literal English to Chinese translations .Despite accuracy being a de-facto factor, even then many companies use translators in the initial stage of translating English to Chinese and then do manual analysis of the machine translated document , to weed any discrepancy in the document.
Benefits of Machine Translation
The biggest advantage for machine translation is that its throughput is very high. Besides, owing to the complexity of Chinese language, a translator can produce 4000 to 10000 words in a day whereas a human translator may produce 2000 words a day. By machine translation, the huge language translation need in English to Chinese translation can be met on quantity, but for quality, it is not very good as of now. But this doesn't mean that machine translation is of no use, many companies use machine translation to translate English to Chinese and then manual checking is done to vet the English to Chinese translations. Using both modes, initially automated translators and then human intervention can considerably increase the translation \
rate.
Issues with Machine Translator
One of the major issue is since language is inherently evolutionary in nature, it demands regular updates in Machine translation software and if these updates are overlooked in higher versions of Machine Translators, the quality of English to Chinese translations documents is attenuated.
The other major issue lies in the apparent ambiguity of language. For a machine it is very tough to translate a word having two meaning. Since machines till date have not advanced to the degree that would enable them to analyze which meaning suits with which phrase. Most translators use a Guess technique (picking up any meaning randomly) to overcome this issue but this is not really a solution and it demands a manual audit.
Many organizations are working on research and development of machine translations. Hopefully, one-day machines would be able to work individually to provide 100% accurate documents. On internet, online translations are offered by Yahoo (Babelfish), Microsoft (Bing Translator), Google (Google Translate) but all these just give a glimpse of content not complete or 100% accurate translations. Till the day, such a machine is developed, the best course of action remains to use both machine and human translations in unison to generate accurate and speedy results.