machine translation

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

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machine translation

(Computer Science) the production of text in one natural language from that in another by means of computer procedures

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machine 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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Bowker and Ciro describe ways that machine translation is used in the context of scholarly communication, and suggest how to use it more effectively.

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AppTek achieved this result by using its unified neural network platform for machine translation and automated speech recognition to leverage features from each for noise adaptation, vocabulary normalization, punctuation prediction and speaker separation for functionally readable and understandable captions.

AppTek delivers new levels of accuracy in live automated closed captioning

However, most of the current, if not future, Neural Machine Translation services were designed to process information sentence by sentence, without taking the whole text into account.

Are humans better than machines at translation?

G Suite Project Manager Vishnu Sivaji explained that machine translation is used 'to build a model that can incorporate the complexity and nuances of grammar correction.'

Google G Suite now equipped with AI that catches tricky grammar mistakes

Abdul Karim Baryialai said that machine translation was need of the hour and it would take time to make it ideal and purposeful.

Writers vow to enrich Pashto by using modern technology

Neural machine translation represents a groundbreaking model, and the attention mechanism (Bolton et al., 2018; Dicu, 2018; Farber, 2017; Machan, 2017; Mihaila, 2018; Nica et al., 2018; Popescu et al., 2017; Sion, 2018a, b) is the prominent method with the cutting-edge records in numerous language pairs.

ALGORITHMIC TEXTUAL PRACTICES: IMPROVING FLUENCY AND WORD ORDER IN NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION OUTPUT

All this is possible because of an end-to-end learning system built on Google's Neural Machine Translation, which basically means that the system learns over time to create better, more natural translations.

Google launches offline neural machine translations

Xuedong Huang, a technical fellow in charge of Microsoft's speech, natural language and machine translation efforts, called it a major milestone in one of the most challenging natural language processing tasks.

AI translates news from Chinese to English

According to Arul Menezes, an IIT-Bombay alumni and Partner Research Manager of Microsoft's machine translation team, the team set out to prove that its systems could perform about as well as a person when it used a language pair -- like Chinese to English -- for which there is a lot of data.

Microsoft AI translates Chinese to English like humans