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Machine Translation in the German Classroom: Detection, Reaction, Prevention
Author(s) -
Steding Sören
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
die unterrichtspraxis/teaching german
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1756-1221
pISSN - 0042-062X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-1221.2009.00052.x
Subject(s) - machine translation , german , computer science , task (project management) , quality (philosophy) , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , translation (biology) , linguistics , engineering , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , systems engineering , epistemology , messenger rna , gene
There are many websites today that offer free machine translations and although beginning students of German are not always proficient enough to judge the quality of these translations or to fully understand certain translation results, they use these services nonetheless for their assignments. The problem for the educator is to distinguish between machine translation and genuine student work. Depending on the assignment and the language level, this task can be very easy or quite difficult. This article describes approaches for dealing with texts that appear to be machine translated rather than “hand‐crafted.”