Trust, understanding, and machine translation: the task of translation and the responsibility of the translator

• Main Author: Chen, Melvin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies; Machine Translation; Automation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170132
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Could translation be fully automated? We must first acknowledge the complexity, ambiguity, and diversity of natural languages. These aspects of natural languages, when combined with a particular dilemma known as the computational dilemma, appear to imply that the machine translator faces certain obs...