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Almahasees, Zakaryia. 2021. Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation: Google Translate, Microsoft Translator and Sakhr. London: Routledge. 222 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Source language
Target language
Main ISBN
9781003191018

Abstract

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However, translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore, translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems, including Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and Sakhr, each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains, including the United Nation (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Arab League, Petra News Agency reports, and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to English
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