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My $0.02: I think an article about "language translation" (or just "translation") should concern the translation of natural languages by people into other natural languages; only the briefest of mentions of machine translation should be on that page. Machine translation is greatly interesting, particularly to Wikipedians (because so many Wikipedians are programmers), and a friend of mine makes a living designing machine translation systems. But translation properly so called (i.e., done by human beings) is a much older, more widespread, and more important topic than machine translation. Of course, we can (maybe already do?) have an article just on machine translation and the many interesting problems it poses. Again, this is just my $0.02. LMS |
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My $0.02: I think an article about "language translation" (or just "translation") should concern the translation of natural languages by people into other natural languages; only the briefest of mentions of machine translation should be on that page. Machine translation is greatly interesting, particularly to Wikipedians (because so many Wikipedians are programmers), and a friend of mine makes a living designing machine translation systems. But translation properly so called (i.e., done by human beings) is a much older, more widespread, and more important topic than machine translation. Of course, we can (maybe already do?) have an article just on machine translation and the many interesting problems it poses. Again, this is just my $0.02. LMS |
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I was just thrusting in my 2¢ on what real-time conversion would be called, in answer to the first question. Long ago I had a multilingual teacher who described the difference in natural language terms, but I can barely remember that so I used the programming example. --Atlas_2091 |
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