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Language Translators

Language Translators. By: Henry Zaremba. Origins of Translator Technology. 1954- IBM gives a demo of a translation program called the “Georgetown-IBM experiment” 250 words in Russian; 6 grammatical rules The database was a 16” disk Data was stored only on the outside 4-inches

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Language Translators

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  1. Language Translators By: Henry Zaremba

  2. Origins of Translator Technology • 1954- IBM gives a demo of a translation program called the “Georgetown-IBM experiment” • 250 words in Russian; 6 grammatical rules • The database was a 16” disk • Data was stored only on the outside 4-inches • Verbatim translation

  3. Mark I • The first machine was unveiled in 1959 • Operation of the “Mark I” involved hand copying text onto a punch card in order to input it into the machine • Broke words down into pieces that were recombined • The machine did not give very accurate translations

  4. Mark II • Upgraded version of “Mark I” developed in 1960 • Larger database and faster processing • Had an “optical character reader” so words didn’t have to be changed into another form for the computer to read them

  5. Computer Assisted Translation • Not limited to purely language translators • Spell and Grammar Checkers • Translation memory management • Human-aided machine translation • Search engines that can search translated texts in addition to those originally in the source language

  6. Transparency vs. Faithfulness • Faithfulness- degree to which a translation correctly keeps the meaning of the source text • Transparency- degree to which a translation sounds like a natural phrase or sentence in the target language

  7. Google Translate • http://translate.google.com/# • I am going to the store

  8. Modern Types of Machine Translators • Rule-based Machine Translation • Linguistic approach • Statistical Machine Translation • Based on a matrix of words in 2 languages • Example-based Machine Translation • Translation by analogy

  9. Hybrid Machine Translation • Attempts to use the strengths of both Rule-based and Statistical translation • 1. Rules post-processed by statistics • 2. Statistics guided by rules

  10. Challenges • Disambiguation • Translating words with 2 or more meanings • Name Recognition • As well as other specific nouns

  11. Available Machine Translators • Free online- • Google translate, Anuusaraka • Commercially available Software • Babylon ($116.40), IdiomaX ($149.95)

  12. Works Cited • Google Translate. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. • O’Grady, William, et al. Contemporary Linguistics. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print. • Rev. of Babylon Language Translation Software. Top Ten Reviews.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. • “Translation.” Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2011.

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