Lexic.us

Definition of Machine translation

1. Noun. The use of computers to translate from one language to another.

Definition of Machine translation

1. Noun. (translation studies) The act of translating something by means of a machine, especially a computer. ¹

2. Noun. (translation studies) The act of translating a computer language into a form more directly usable by the computer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Translation

Literary usage of Machine translation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"In a typical flurry of overreaction, the Air Force convened a prestigious panel which ruled that machine translation was an impossible goal and an ..."

2. The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of by Jacques Vallee (2003)
"When the government henchmen cut off all funds for machine translation work, ... Work on machine translation resumed, slowly, under various guises, ..."

3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"Our team researches natural language processing, and we have developed English-Japanese and Japanese-English machine translation system. ..."

4. How to Acquire Japanese Scientific and Technical Information (1993)
"JICST/NTIS 1993 Conference Proceedings automated machine translation (MT) systems that ... machine translation does not preclude the need however for ..."

5. Foreign Languages: Human Capital Approach Needed to Correct Staffing and by Joseph A. Christoff (2002)
"In addition, both the private and the public sectors are exploring advances in machine translation of spoken and written communications. ..."

6. Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy (1993)
"Japan is the leader in efforts to apply and commercialize Japanese- to-English machine translation technologies. In 1990, the House Subcommittee on Science, ..."

7. Computer Science In Asia (1993)
"... cooperative research activity lays in a machine translation system for Asian languages (currently Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Japanese). ..."

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