mechanical translation

[mi′kan·ə·kəl tranz′lā·shən]

(computer science)

Automatic translation of one language into another by means of a computer or other machine that contains a dictionary look-up in its memory, along with the programs needed to make logical choices from synonyms, supply missing words, and rearrange word order as required for the new language. Also known as machine translation.

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Zakaria Mohammed's poem, translated as "The Plate Breaker,"would be in a mechanical translation something more like "The Wing of Disappointment.

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Much of the confidence in the scope of mechanical translation, which marked the 1950s and early sixties, has ebbed.

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simultaneous and mechanical translation," which was being used to great effect at the United Nations and had been a huge success when tested the previous year in Ottawa at the North Atlantic Alliance conference.

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By using rolling drums, belts, wheels, perforated tape and typewriter-like output methods, were the first truly mechanical translation devices (Freigang 2001).

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First, one sees the typical mechanical translation of rnam pa (akara, "form, shape, figure, aspect, appearance, expression, sign, identity") (2) as "aspect.

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