Machine Translation Versus Dictionary and Text Structure
Larissa Beliaeva · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 2003
Nowadays, in the age of global communications, the need for on-line, accurate, and cheap translation from one language into another has become absolutely pronounced. This situation can even turns critical when considering translation and interpreting in high risk technology domains. The discrepancy in Codes, Norms, and Standards in various countries as well as delayed information exchange gives rise to increasing disagreement in high-technology and dangerous fields of common engineering interest. The emphasis of this paper is the necessity of realizing the correlation between the main problems and achievements of both machine translation and translation memory systems as well as the possibilities of using such systems as a real tool (automatic workstation) for both analysts and translators. It means consideration of such system pragmatics which demands that we investigate different kinds of linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge as well as interference of the authors’ mother tongues on the English special text generation. One of the solutions is to give due consideration of the text structure and to use translation memory principles when a single text is processed in a machine translation system.