Saturday, March 24, 2007

Machine Translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the acronym MT, is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another

-- by Wikipedia


我前几天参加一个workshop 的时候, 一位ATR 的研究者给了我另一个定义,
把我逗乐了。

My definition is : Machine translation is the use of computer software to cut up the text in one natural language and re-arrange the words in a random order in another language.

-- By Andrew in ATR Japan