This study offers a partial reduplication of a 2006 study by Williams, which focused primarily on the analysis of the quality of translation produced by online software, namely Yahoo!® Babelfish, ***, and Google ...
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This study offers a partial reduplication of a 2006 study by Williams, which focused primarily on the analysis of the quality of translation produced by online software, namely Yahoo!® Babelfish, ***, and Google Translate. Since the data for the study by Williams were collected in 2004 and the data for present study in 2012, this gives a lapse of eight years for a diachronic analysis of the differences in quality of the translations provided by these online services. At the time of the 2006 study by Williams, all three services used a rule-basedtranslation system, but, in October 2007, however, Google Translate switched to a system that is entirely statistical in nature. Thus, the present study is also able to examine the differences in quality between contemporary statistical and rule-based approaches to machinetranslation.
This article addresses a pervasive problem of concern to teachers of many foreign languages: the use of web-based machine translation (WBMT) by students who do not understand the complexities of this relatively new to...
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This article addresses a pervasive problem of concern to teachers of many foreign languages: the use of web-based machine translation (WBMT) by students who do not understand the complexities of this relatively new tool. Although networked technologies have greatly increased access to many language and communication tools, WBMT is still ineffective for translating text into another language, especially when the user of the software is not able to make grammaticality and acceptability judgments in the target language. This article explains some specific limitations of WBMT (with examples from French) and provides a pedagogical plan for teachers to present this tool to students in order to promote language awareness and electronic literacy, which could help reduce the widespread misuse of this tool by students.
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