Use of machine translation technology for understanding scientific and technical texts
Ilona Ivanivna Kostikova, Alona Shevchenko, Liudmyla Holubnycha, Nataliya Popova, Viktoriia Budianska · 2019
The article deals with machine translation technology, which is being discussed by several sciences such as Computer Science, Programming, Linguistics recently. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the technology of machine translation can be used by scholars, scientists, users in order to understand scientific and technical texts. The principal results are the comparison of different systems (traditional, statistical, hybrid and neural) of machine translation, assessment their advantages and disadvantages, limitations, drawbacks, and errors; experimental analysis the quality of the scientific and technical text made by machine translation systems Google Translate and Pragma Online. Common and different in both translation systems have been proved experimentally. The obtained results were processed and analyzed. The methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison and classification were used as well as the method of mathematical statistics Student’s criterion in the experimental research. The major conclusions are we definitely have all the grounds for advising Google Translate to use for general understanding scientific and technical texts.