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machine translation
n.
Automatic translation, as by computer, from one natural language to another.

machine translation
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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) the production of text in one natural language from that in another by means of computer procedures
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Noun1.machine translation - the use of computers to translate from one language to anothermachine translation - the use of computers to translate from one language to another
artificial intelligence, AI - the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; "workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots"
computational linguistics - the use of computers for linguistic research and applications


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While expert translators, ordinary native speakers and native machine translators are options the issue is often one of timing and the reliability of the end product.
When IBM developed the first machine translator in 1954, Professor Leon Dostert, a Georgetown language scholar and pioneer of electronic translation, confidently predicted that it would be possible to translate an entire book using the techniques "five, perhaps three years hence.
The Phraselator, a speech-to-speech machine translator from English to Arabic, Dari, Pashtu, and Urdu currently in use in Afghanistan, began as a DARPA initiative and will continue under the LASER, ACTD.
 
 
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