An Economic Model of Machine Translation

Milam  Aiken; Mina Park

doi:10.24297/ijct.v21i.9046

Authors

Milam Aiken School of Business Administration, University, Mississippi, USA
Mina Park School of Business, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/ijct.v21i.9046

Keywords:

Google Translate, machine translation, computer-aided translation

Abstract

With the advent of free, online translation services such as Google Translate, many people are now able to obtain information relatively effortlessly from a wide variety of foreign language sources. The translations from these services are often worse than those provided by professional, human translators, however, and the tradeoff between these two alternatives is not always clear. When should a professional be used, and when is machine translation sufficient? In this study, we discuss factors involved in the decision and illustrate their use with a predictive model.

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