Machine Translation-Prospects and Problems

Abstract

About 25 years ago,Hugo Gernsback, editor–in–chief , radio Electronics’ predicted that by the dawn of the coming century, language barriers will have vanished. His prediction has almost come true although we are still 13 years away from the next country. Electronic machines;  particularly computers have made inroads into the translation activity, will they replace the human translators? Such a situation may not arise in the near future, since fully automatic, high quality machine translation seems next to impossible. In spite of this, efforts towards achieving machine translation have not stopped, significant progress has been made in the area of machine translation. Machine translation is a complex process of man- machine interaction.

Methods of Translation:

For the purpose of understanding the Concept of machine translation, it is desirable to examine various methods of translation. They are as follows:

1. Human Translation
2. Machine-aided translation (MAT)
3. Human-aided machine Translation
4. Machine Translation (MT).