Open AccessAn Economic Model of Machine Translation
Author(s) -
Milam Aiken,
Mina Park
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of computer and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3061
DOI - 10.24297/ijct.v21i.9046
Subject(s) - machine translation , variety (cybernetics) , computer science , translation (biology) , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , data science , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , gene
With the advent of free, online translation services such as Google Translate, many people are now able to obtain information relatively effortlessly from a wide variety of foreign language sources. The translations from these services are often worse than those provided by professional, human translators, however, and the tradeoff between these two alternatives is not always clear. When should a professional be used, and when is machine translation sufficient? In this study, we discuss factors involved in the decision and illustrate their use with a predictive model.