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Is Machine Translation Truly Dependable Now? Don't Panic! Technologist and Linguists Got Something to Say

The day before yesterday, Microsoft announced that the machine translation it has developed has reached the level of human expertise in translating general news from Chinese to English. The first three days, Sogou launched travel translator treasure; It is said that next month, FlyTech will also launch a new translation machine.

Machine translation is a great progress for human beings. It enables people who are not good at foreign languages to go abroad easily and communicate smoothly. Some students even begin to imagine the days of "no more learning foreign languages".

So is machine translation really up to human expertise? Did you really learn your foreign language for nothing? Let's listen to the experts from ACE CHINESE TRANSLATION, a reputably famous language translation agency based in China, as they got some insights into this issue. 

In the myth of the tower of Babel, men banded together to plan a tower that would lead to heaven. God discovered that "if things go on like this, human beings will be omnipotent". Therefore, god created many languages, and let people of different RACES speak different languages, making it impossible for people to communicate and cooperate with each other, thus stopping the plan of human beings.

Thanks to the development of modern technology, people are no longer unfamiliar with the concept of "globalvillage", but we still live in the shadow of the tower of Babel. Because language is still a barrier to business and marketing. While technological devices can quickly connect the world, people in different parts of the world cannot communicate easily.




Translation agencies can help people in different countries understand speeches, contracts, outsourcing instructions and advertising. Some agencies also offer small language translations that are specific to the area. For example, if a company is marketing in Quebec, the advertising must be in Quebec French, not European French. However, some enterprises are unwilling to spend too much on translation, so they cannot fully enter the global market.


Global markets are also waiting, and ai-driven language translation is not ready for globalization despite recent advances in natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Without receiving a grammatically correct language, the AI cannot handle language requests with ease. In November 2016, Google added neural networks to its translation tool. However, some translations still have strange communicative and grammatical problems. The technical experts discussed this question with the professor of linguistics.


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