AN EVALUATION OF ONLINE MACHINE TRANSLATION OF ARABIC INTO ENGLISH NEWS HEADLINES: IMPLICATIONS ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING PURPOSES

• Main Authors: Kadhim, Kais, Habeeb, Luwaytha, Sapar, Ahmad Arifin, Hussin, Zaharah, Abdullah, Muhammad Ridhuan Tony Lim
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: LC Special aspects of education; LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/11065/1/tojet%20paper%202.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/11065/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Nowadays, online Machine Translation (MT) is used widely with translation software, such as Google and Babylon, being easily available and downloadable. This study aims to test the translation quality of these two machine systems in translating Arabic news headlines into English. 40 Arabic news he...