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Publication details [#2090]
Melby, Alan K. 1992. The translator workstation [1992]. In Newton, John, ed. Computers in translation: a practical appraisal. London: Routledge. pp. 147–165.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
The primary objection to investing in the development of translator workstations has always been that available resources would be better spent on the development of automatic machine translation systems. A background assumption for this objection is that machine translation will replace human translators altogether. This paper challenges that assumption. Examining the history of machine translation since the early 1950s, it can be seen that its success is highly dependent on the nature of the source text and the intended use of the translation.
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