Abstract: Machine translation now left laboratories and became one of the practices of information service. A large number of free or partly free systems of machine translation became available in the net. Consequently, the task of their comparison and evaluation criteria arises. The paper describes the procedure of the estimation of the machine translation of text executed by different machine translation systems. The systems did translation into the Russian language of text (fragment “Communist manifesto” by Marx and Engels) from German, English and French. Students of the philological department of Saint-Petersburg? State University systematized errors of translation, tried to determine the sources of errors, and considered the possibility (or impossibility) of their elimination.

Keywords: machine translation, evaluation, teaching

ACM Classification Keywords: I.2.7 Natural Language Processing

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MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE COURSE “COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES IN LINGUISTICS” AT THE PHILOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE SAINT-PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY

Andrei Masevich, Victor Zakharov

http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-26/ibs-26-p03.pdf