machine translations

Algorithm-produced foreign texts

Machine translations are texts converted from one language to another by software rather than human translators.

The term covers both the process and its output.

Early systems produced notoriously awkward results; modern neural networks have dramatically improved quality, though subtle errors and unnatural phrasing remain common: The manual was obviously a machine translation.

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parsings · idiomatic expressions · deep learning · training data · language barrier · neural networks · grammar rules · semantic analysis · morphology · lexicon · bigrams · tokenization · pragmatics · cloud computing · e-commerce platforms · target language · phonetics · source language

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agency/producer

machine translationsliterary translations

Texts converted between tongues

transcreation

process/method

machine translationsoriginal composition

Freshly created artistic piece

source texts

original vs. translated text

machine translationsoriginal text

First unedited version

source text

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machine, machines, machined, machining, machinist, machinists, machinery, mechanic, mechanics

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