An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Online Translation Systems
Milam W Aiken, Kaushik Ghosh, John Zhu-En Wee, Mahesh B. Vanjani · Communications of the IIMA · 2014
Until fairly recently, translation among a large variety of natural languages has been difficult and costly. Now, several free, Web-based machine translation (MT) services can provide support, but relatively little research has been conducted on their accuracies. A study of four of these services using German-to-English and Spanish-to-English translations showed that Google Translate appeared to be superior. Further study using this system alone showed that while translations were not always perfect, their understandability was quite high.