28/05/2016
Statistical machine translation (SMT) and translation memories
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Two technological advances in the field of automated language translation, translation memory (TM) and statistical machine translation (SMT),have seen vast progress over the last decades, but they have been developed very much in isolation.
"TMs" are a tool for human translators. Since many translation needs are highly repetitive (translation of updated product manuals, or several drafts of leg-islation), being able to find existing translations of segments of the source language text, alleviates the need to carry out redundant translation. TM have addressed the need of translation agencies
to produce high-quality translations of often repetitive material, SMT has set itself the challenge of open domain translations such as news stories and is mostly satisfied with translation quality that is good enough for girting, i.e., transmitting the meaning of the source text to a target language speaker.