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Article #148Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: George Ho
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
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I used to be fascinated by the idea of machine translation. After years of practice in the real world translation, I suppose machine translation is just a toy for people in the ivory tower. I don't believe machine translation can really become commercialized in the near future. Every good translator knows that translation does not only involve linguistic skills but cover a wide range of knowledge database. They must be very versatile. Otherwise there will be no "guts" in their works. Besides, a good translator, like a good writer, depends on their inspiration more than often and tends to change their wording from time to time to make their translation as perfect as possible. I don't believe a computer can do that sort of self-polishing at all.
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