Technologies
"How the Computer Translates"
Svetlana Sokolova
President of PROMT
Ph.D Computer Science
Machine translation is a special field of computer application where almost everyone believes that he or she is a specialist in this field.
Firstly, everybody understands that the larger the dictionary volume is, the better the translation will be, so the first problem is to create large dictionaries for the systems.
Secondly, it is clear that the system should be able to translate sentences like HI, HOW ARE YOU DOING? So, another problem is to teach the system to recognize common collocations.
Thirdly, it is obvious that a sentence subject to translation is written in accordance with certain rules and should be translated under certain rules, so there is one more problem: to store all these rules as a program. That's it....
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PROMT is a world leading provider of automated translation software. The company develops @promt translation software and dictionaries awarded by the leading computer magazines. PROMT offers translation solutions for the home and business usage as well as for Internet and corporate intranets.
PROMT provides machine translation for seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian, with a total of 24 translation directions for over 100 specialized domains.
