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1 卫怡雯(A Comparison Between the Quality of Machine Translation and Human Translation——A Case Study of the Application of artificial intelligence in Sports Events)

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Abstract

With deeper globalization, international sports competitions become more frequently. Translation plays an important role in sports communication. Nowadays, machine translation has been widely applied in many fields because of the rapid development of artificial intelligence. This essay will expound the current situation of the application of machine translation in sports events and the future of it as well as make a comparison with human translation.

Key words

Machine Translation; Human Translation; International Sports Events；Artificial Intelligence

题目

论机器翻译与人工翻译的质量对比——以人工智能在体育赛事领域的应用为例

摘要

随着全球化的推进，世界的交流增多，国际体育比赛也日渐频繁。语言翻译是体育比赛时重要的沟通工具。随着人工智能的快速发展，机器翻译已经广泛应用于许多领域。本文将探讨机器翻译在体育比赛中的应用现状与未来的发展前景，并将其与人工翻译进行对比。

关键词

机器翻译；人工翻译；国际体育赛事；人工智能

1. Introduction

With the speeding of globalization, not only does economy develop, but China has participated in more and more international sports competitions in order to build a leading sports nation. In the chapter 11 of Genesis of the Bible, it was recorded that men united to build a Babel Tower with the purpose of reaching the heaven. In order to stop the human’s plan, God determined the human beings to speak different languages, so that they could not communicate with each other. The plan finally failed because of the language barrier. Therefore, language communication and translation exert an enormous influence on exchange. The level of language service not only shows the capability of a country’s holding events, but also a way to show cultural soft power. As artificial intelligence has developed so fast, whether machine translation will replace human translation one day has been a heated debate for several years. Machine translation has been applied in Tokyo Olympic Games and other individual events, such as football and tennis. It will also be applied in Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Hangzhou Asian Games in the coming year. Though it effectively solves the shortage of translators, there are still many problems existing.

2.The Current Situation of Machine Translation in Sports

Machine translation is a processing of natural language with artificial intelligence. Since 1949, the father of machine translation Warren Weaver put forward the concept, there were three periods in the development of machine translation. The first is rule-based machine translation. Linguists believed that there can be rules to follow in language, so they summarize the rules of different natural languages and use computers to transfer them. The second is statistical machine translation. It is a data-driven approach by establishing of probability model to calculate the translation And nowadays, neural machine translation has been applied in machine translation since 2014. It adopted the continuous space representation to represent words, phrases and sentences. In translation model, it doesn’t need word alignment, phrase extraction, phrase probability calculation and other statistical machine translation processing steps, instead, it only convert source language to target language by neutral network. One of the traits of sports translation is real-time. Lagging message is invaluable. Simultaneous interpretation of sports commentators is the most common way in the race. Translators need to bring the first-hand information to the athletes, coaches, referee and audience. Athletes and coach need to adjust strategies to win the game after getting the indication of referee. Audience can feel immerged in the intense situation and experience the nervous atmosphere. Second, sports translators should equip with many professional knowledge. Another trait is that sports translation involves in many languages. Sports players from all over the world will attend the competition. But nowadays, the translation is limit on English. Above all, the requirements of sports translators are strict. Therefore, in current time, the demand and supply of sports translation talents are unbalanced. There is in badly-need of sports translators in both quantity and quality. It is necessary to introduce the machine translation to it in order to alleviate talent shortage.

3.The Comparison of Machine Translation and Human Translation

The advantage of machine translation is: First, during the pandemic period, it can reduce the human contact face to face, keep distance from each other and guarantee the athletes, staff and volunteers health. Second, it can be more effective without the epidemic prevention procedures However, the application of machine translation in sports field still exist problems. Though machine translation has greatly improved in the fluency of sentence, which exerts little influence on daily communication, the combination of linguistics with machine translation is essential, particularly in specialized professional fields such as sports. In the process of sports translation, we will come across many professional sports terms, which is completely different from the daily meaning.

2 吴映红（The Introduction of Machine Translation)

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题目

机器翻译的发展历程与主要内容

关键词

Machine Translation；

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Introduction: Machine translation has been in the works for decades, and every day, it is becoming less of a science fiction hope and more of a reality. Understanding the nuances of language is difficult even for people to pick up, and it is now apparent that this is the very reason why machine translation has only been able to develop so far.

EARLY HISTORY Developers have dreamed of computers that quickly understand and translate language since the potential of such a device was first realized. One of the most important outcomes of creating and improving upon translation technology is that it opens up the world of computers beyond just mathematical and logical functions, into more complex relationships between words and meaning. The early history of machine translation began around the 1950s. Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation began putting together machine-based code breaking and natural language processing, which pioneered the concept of computer translation as early as 1949. These proposals can be found in his “Memorandum on Translation.”

Fascinatingly enough, it did not take long before computer translation projects were well underway. The research team that founded the Georgetown-IBM experiment had a demonstration in 1954 of a machine that could translate 250 words from Russian into English.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS People thought that machine translation was on the fast track to solving a great number of problems surrounding communication barriers, and many translators began to fear for their jobs. However, advancements ended up stalling before they hit their stride due to subtle language nuances that computers simply could not pick up on. No matter the language, words often have multiple meanings or connotations. Human brains are simply better equipped than a computer to access the complex framework of meaning and syntax. By 1964, the US Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC) reported that machine translation was not worth the effort or resources being used to develop it.

1970-1990 Not all countries had the same views as ALPAC. In the 1970s, Canada developed the METEO system, which translated weather reports from English into French. It was a simple program that was able to translate 80,000 words per day. The program was successful enough to enjoy use into the 2000s before requiring a system update. The French Textile Institute used machine translation to convert abstracts from French into English, German, and Spanish. Around the same timeframe, Xerox used their own system to translate technical manuals. Both were used effectively as early as the 1970s, but machine translation was still only scratching the surface by translating technical documents. By the 1980s, people were diving into developing translation memory technology, which was the beginning of overcoming the challenges posed by nuanced verbal communication. But, systems continued to face the same trappings when trying to convert text into a new language without losing meaning.

2000 Due to the creation of the Internet and all the opportunity it offered, Franz-Josef Och won a machine translation speed competition in 2003 and would become head of Translation Development at Google. By 2012, Google announced that its own Google Translate translated enough text to fill one million books in a day. Japan also leads the revolution of machine translation by creating speech-to-speech translations for mobile phones that function for English, Japanese, and Chinese. This is a result of investing time and money into developing computer systems that model a neural network instead of memory-based functions.

As such, Google informed the public in 2016 that the implementation of a neural network approach improved clarity across Google Translate, eliminating much of its clumsiness. They called it the Google Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system. The system began translating language pairings that it had not been taught. The programmers taught the system English and Portuguese and also English to Spanish. The system then began translating Portuguese and Spanish, though it had not been assigned that pairing.

FUTURE ENDEAVORS It was once believed that the time had finally come when machine translation might be able to outperform human counterparts. In 2017, Sejong Cyber University and the International Interpretation and Translation Association of Korea put on a competition between four humans and leading machine translation systems. The machines translated the text faster that the humans without any doubt, but they still could not compete with the human mind when it came to nuance and accuracy of translation. People have been dreaming about the swiftness and ease promised by accurate, reliable machine translation since before the 1950s. The fanciful idea of a shared way to communicate worldwide still has a long way to go. Creating a computer that thinks more like a human will open the world to possibilities beyond just simple communication. Technology has advanced well beyond using a machine to crunch numbers – it brings the world closer and closer together with each passing year. But for now, you are better sticking with human translators for the texts that matter.

3 肖毅瑶(On the Realm Advantages And Symbiotic Development of Machine Translation And Huamn Translation)

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Abstract

Machine translation has achieved great advancement since its appearance in 1947, and plays an increasingly significant role in translation market. Then it gives rise to a intense argument among the scholars on the relationship between machine translation and human translation. Does the emergence of machine translation exactly pose a huge challenge or bring incredible opportunities to the human translation market? What might be going on between the two kinds of translation? Will they replace each other or develop hand in hand? How should translators cope with such a competitive situation? The author consider that along with the continuous improvement of science and technology, although machine translation indeed has occupied a dominant position in some specific fields, it still exists certain defects and is improbable to displace human translation.Therefore, based on the distinctive characteristics of machine translation and human translation, this paper intends to briefly analyze their respective advantages in different fields and to explore the possibilities and approaches for their symbiotic development.

Key words

Machine Translation; Huamn Translation; Realm Advantages; Symbiotic Development

题目

论机器翻译与人工翻译的领域优势及共生发展

摘要

机器翻译自1947年问世以来不断发展，并逐渐在翻译市场发挥着举足轻重的作用，随之而至的便是人们对于机器翻译与人工翻译之间关系的思考与研究。机器翻译的应运而生给人工翻译市场带来的究竟是巨大的冲击还是无限的机遇呢？二者的关系走向将会如何，是取而代之还是并驾齐驱？译者该如何应对机器翻译的挑战？ 笔者认为随着科学技术的不断完善，人工翻译和机器翻译在不同的领域各自都具备一定主导地位，但机器翻译仍旧存在一定缺陷，永远不可能取代人工翻译。本文立足于机器翻译与人工翻译的不同特点，浅析二者各自的领域优势，探究其共生发展的可能性以及途径。

关键词

人工翻译；机器翻译；领域优势；共生发展

1. Introduction

From the dawn of time, translation has always been of great necessity in every aspects, such as in political, economic and daily life. With countries around the world becoming more inter-linked, it demands much more amounts of translators. Nevertheless, human translators are quite expensive but limited by time and space. Then machine translation comes into being for higher efficiency and lower cost. Machine translation, also called computer aided translation, refers to using a computer to translate the source language into target language. It is completely automatic without any human intervention. Currently, machine translation has hold a great position in the translation market and has caused certain impact on the employment of human translators. Thus many scholars are concerned about whether human translators could be totally displaced by machine translation. If not, how could translators get along with machine translation in harmony and complementarily? This paper aims to through a comparative analysis between machine translation and human translation to figure out their respective advantage as well as the existing defects. The author believes that machine translation can be both a challenge and an opportunity, which depends on how human translators deal with such a situation. Therefore, in this paper, the author attempts to present some advice on how could human translation and machine translation achieve a cooperative development.

2. The emergence and development of machine translation

The Origin of machine translation can be traced back to 1949，when Warren Weaver first proposed what is machine translation. In the following several decades, America played a leading role in the research of machine translation, while this situation ended in an accuse of uselessness to the whole society by American government. Then machine translation research entered into a stagnation. In 1970s, people’s interest on machine translation was raised again, thus it achieved a considerable development. With the continuous advancement of science technology in China, machine translation gradually gained more and more attention. Many researchers and companies began to realize the great value and profit in it, for which various systems and softwares emerged one after another. These inventions did bring a lot convenience to human life, which enjoys much more preferment from people for its high efficiency and economical essence compared to human translators.

4 王李菲 （Comparison Between Neural Machine Translation of Netease and Traditional Human Translation—A Case Study of The Economist Articles)

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Abstract

Machine translation is a subfield of artificial intelligence and natural language processing that investigates transforming the source language into the target language. On this basis, the emergence of neural machine translation, a new method based on sequence-to-sequence model, improves the quality and accuracy of translation to a new level. As one of the earliest companies to invest in machine translation in China, Netease launched neural machine translation in 2017, which adopts the unique structure of neural network to encode sentences, imitating the working mechanism of human brain, and generates a translation that is more professional and more in line with the target language context. This paper takes the articles in The Economist as the corpus for analysis, and aims to explore the types and causes of common errors, as well as the advantages and challenges of each, through the comparative analysis of Netease neural machine translation and human translation, and finally to forecast the future development trend and make a summary of this paper.

Key words

Neural Machine Translation; Human Translation; Contrastive Analysis

题目

有道神经网络机器翻译与传统人工翻译的译文对比——以经济学人语料为例

摘要

机器翻译研究将源语言所表达的语义自动转换为目标语言的相同语义，是人工智能和自然语言处理的重要研究分区。在此基础上，一种基于序列到序列模型的全新机器翻译方法——神经机器翻译的出现让译文的质量和准确度提升到了新的层次。网易作为国内最早投身机器翻译的公司之一，在2017年上线的神经网络翻译采用了独到的神经网络结构，模仿人脑的工作机制对句子进行编码，生成的译文更具专业性，也更符合目的语语境。本文以经济学人内的文章为分析语料，旨在通过对网易神经机器翻译和人工翻译的英汉译文进行对比分析，探究常见错误类型及生成原因，以及各自存在的优势与挑战，最后展望未来发展趋势，并对本文做出总结。

关键词

神经网络翻译；人工翻译；对比分析

1. Introduction

1.1 Neural Machine Translation

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of neural machine translation (NMT), which has replaced traditional statistical machine translation (SMT) to become a new mainstream technique, playing a crucial part in many fields, like business, academic and industry.

The previous SMT was more like a mechanical system, consisting of several components, including phrase conditions, partial conditions, sequential conditions, primitive models, and so on. Each module has its own function and goal, and then outputs the translation results through mechanical splicing. Its main disadvantage is that the model contains low syntactic and semantic components, so it will encounter problems when dealing with languages with large syntactic differences, such as Chinese-English. Sometimes the result is unreadable even though it is "word-for-word".

Compared with SMT, NMT model is more like an organism. There are many parameters in the model that can be adjusted and optimized for the same goal, making the combination and interaction more organic and the overall translation effect better. Its core is deep learning of artificial intelligence which can imitate the working mechanism of human brain and adopt unique neural network structure to model the whole process of translation. The whole model is composed of a large number of "neurons", and each "neuron" has to complete some simple tasks, and then through the combination of all of them to coordinate the work, a much better translation text appears.

Since NMT put more emphasis on context and the whole text, it produces more coherent and comprehensible content to readers than traditional SMT, and be widely accepted and used in various field in a very short time.

1.2 Business English Translation

The process of economic globalization has accelerated overwhelmingly nowadays, and considerable resources are poured into the business field. As a branch of global language English, business English is proposed under the theoretical framework of English for Specific Purpose (ESP), serves the international business activities which is a professional subject requiring specialized English.

According to the general standard, business English can be divided into two categories: English for General Business Purpose and English for Specific Business Purpose. Under this standard, business English is closely related to serious economic activities, resulting different functional variants, such as legal English, practical writing English, advertising English and so on. In a narrow definition, business English at least includes the following three types: 1) texts like commercial advertising, company profile, product description and so on; 2) texts related to cross- culture communication between business people to job hunting; text connected with world economy, international trade, finance, securities and investment, marketing, management, logistics and transport, contracts and agreements, insurance and arbitration.

The Economist is an international news and Business Weekly offering clear coverage, commentary and analysis of global politics, business, finance, science and technology. A huge number of terminologies plus the polysemy contained in the texts, put forward a tricky problem to both machine translation and human translation.

5 杨柳青

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6 徐敏赟(Machine Translation Based on Neural Network --Challenge or Chance)

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Abstract

With the acceleration of economic globalization, there is a growing demand for translation services. In recent years, with the rapid development of neural networks and deep learning, the quality of machine translation has been significantly improved. Compared with human translation, machine translation has the advantages of low cost and high speed.

Neural machine translation brings both convenience and pressure to translators. Based on the principles of neural machine translation, this paper will objectively analyze the advantages and disadvantages of neural machine translation, and discuss whether neural machine translation is a chance or a challenge for human translators.

Key words

Neural network; Deep learning; Machine translation; human translation

题目

基于神经网络的机器翻译 --机遇还是挑战？

摘要

随着经济全球化进程的加速，人们对翻译服务的需求也越来越大。近些年来，神经网络和深度学习等技术得到快速发展，机器翻译的质量得到了显著提高，较人工翻译来讲有着成本低，速度快等优势。

基于神经网络的机器翻译给翻译工作者带来便捷的同时，同时也给翻译工作者们带来了一定的压力。本文将会从神经机器翻译的原理出发，客观分析基于神经网络的机器翻译中存在的一些优势与劣势，并以此来探讨机器翻译对于翻译工作者来说到底是机遇还是挑战这一问题。

关键词

神经网络；深度学习；机器翻译；人工翻译；

1.Introduction

Machine Translation, (Li Mu, Liu Shujie, Zhang Dongdong, Zhou Ming 2018, 2) a branch of Natural Language Processing (NLP), refers to the process of using a machine to automatically translate a natural language (source language) sentence into another language (target language) sentence. The natural language here refers to human language used daily (such as English, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), which is different from languages created by humans for specific purposes (such as computer programming languages).

According to statistics, there are about 5600 human languages in existence. In China, as we are a big family composed of 56 ethnic groups, some ethnic minorities also have their own languages and scripts. In other countries, due to the history of colonization, these countries usually have multiple official languages, so some official documents usually need to be written in more than two languages. In the context of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, communication among different languages has become an important part of building a community with a shared future for mankind. Therefore, the application of machine translation technology can help promote national unity, communication between different languages and cross-cultural communication.

Although the latest machine translation method, neural machine translation, has advantages such as speed and low cost, machine translation is still far from being as effective as human translation. Li Yao (Li Yao 2021, 39) selects Chronicle of a Blood Merchant translated by Andrew F. Jones, a classic work of Yu Hua, and the versions of Baidu Translation, Youdao Translation and Google Translation as corpus to conduct a comparative study on translation quality. Starting from the development of machine translation, Jin Wenlu (Jin Wenlu 2019, 82) analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of machine translation and manual translation, discussed the question of whether machine translation can replace human translation. In order to further explore the impact of machine translation on translators, this paper will take neural machine translation - the latest machine translation as an example to discuss whether machine translation is a chance or a challenge for translators.

2.Comparison of different machine translation methods

Actually, the development of Machine Translation methods is going through four stages: rule-based methods, instance-based methods, statistical machine translation and neural machine translation. At present, thanks to the application of deep learning methods, neural machine translation has become the mainstream. Compared with statistical machine translation, neural machine translation has the following advantages:

1) End-to-end learning does not rely on too many prior assumptions. In the era of statistical machine translation, model design makes more or less assumptions about the process of translation. Phrase-based models, for example, assume that both source and target languages are sliced into sequences of phrases, with some alignment between them. This hypothesis has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it draws lessons from the relevant concepts of linguistics and helps to integrate the model into human prior knowledge. On the other hand, the more assumptions, the more constrained the model. If the assumptions are correct, the model can describe the problem well. But if the assumptions are wrong, the model can be biased. Deep learning does not rely on prior knowledge, nor does it require manual design of features. The model learns directly from the mapping of input and output (end-to-end learning), which also avoids possible deviations caused by assumptions to a certain extent.

2) The continuous space model of neural network has better representation ability. A basic problem in machine translation is how to represent a sentence. Statistical machine translation regards the process of sentence generation as the derivation of phrases or rules, which is essentially a symbol system in discrete space. Deep learning transforms traditional discrete-based representations into representations of continuous space. For example, a distributed representation of the space of real numbers replaces the discrete lexical representation, and the entire sentence can be described as a vector of real numbers. Therefore, the translation problem can be described in continuous space, which greatly alleviates the dimension disaster of traditional discrete space model. More importantly, continuous space model can be optimized by gradient descent and other methods, which has good mathematical properties and is easy to implement.

7 颜莉莉(一带一路背景下人工智能与翻译人才的培养)

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Abstract

In the era of artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence has been applied to various fields. In the field of translation, traditional translation models can no longer meet the rapid development and updating of the information age. The development of machine translation has brought structural changes to the language service industry, which poses challenges to the cultivation of translation talents. Under the background of "The Belt and Road initiative", translation talents have higher and higher requirements on translation literacy. Artificial intelligence and translation technology are used to reform the training mode of translation talents, so as to better serve the development of The Times. This paper mainly explores the cultivation of artificial intelligence and translation talents under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative. The cultivation of translation talents is moving towards comprehensive cultivation of talents. On the contrary, artificial intelligence and machine translation can also be used to improve the teaching mode and teaching content, so as to win together in cooperation.

Key words

Artificial intelligence,Machine translation,cultivation of translation talents,"The Belt and Road initiative"

题目

一带一路背景下人工智能与翻译人才的培养

摘要

进入人工智能时代，人工智能被应用于各个领域。在翻译领域，传统的翻译模式已无法满足信息化时代的飞速发展和更新，机器翻译的发展给语言服务行业带来了结构性改变，这对翻译人才的培养提出了挑战。“一带一路”背景下，对翻译人才的翻译素养要求越来越高，利用人工智能和翻译技术对翻译人才培养模式进行革新，更好为时代发展服务。本文主要探究在一带一路背景下人工智能和翻译人才培养，翻译人才的培养过程中正向对人才的综合性培养，反之也可以利用人工智能和机器翻译完善教学模式和教学内容，在合作中共赢。

关键词

人工智能；机器翻译；翻译人才培养；一带一路

1. Introduction

With the development of science and technology in China, artificial intelligence has also been greatly improved, and related technologies have been applied to various fields, such as the use of intelligent robots to deliver food to quarantined people during the epidemic, which has made people's lives more convenient. The most controversial and widely discussed issue is machine translation. Before the emergence of machine translation, translation was generally dominated by human translation, including translation and interpretation, which was divided into simultaneous interpretation and hand transmission, etc. It takes a lot of time and energy to cultivate a translation talent. However, nowadays, the era is developing rapidly and information is updated rapidly. As a translation talent, it is necessary to constantly update its knowledge reserve to keep up with the pace of The Times. The emergence of machine translation has also posed challenges to translation talents and the training of translation talents. Although machine translation had some problems in the early stage, it is now constantly improving its functions. In the context of the belt and Road Initiative, both machine translation and human translation are facing difficulties. Regardless of whether human translation is still needed, what is more important at present is how to train translators to adapt to difficulties and promote the cooperation between human translation and machine translation.

2.Development status of machine translation in the era of artificial intelligence

With the development of AI technology, machine translation has made great progress and has been applied to people's lives. For example, more and more tourists choose to download translation software when traveling abroad, which makes machine translation take an absolute advantage in daily email reply and other translation activities that do not require high accuracy. The translation software commonly used by netizens include Google Translation, Baidu Translation, Youdao Translation, IFly.com Translation, etc. Even wechat and other chat software can also carry out instant Translation into English. Some companies have also launched translation pens, translation machines and other equipment, which enables even native speakers to rely on machine translation to carry out basic communication with other Chinese people. But so far, machine translation still faces huge problems. Although machine translation has made great progress, it is highly dependent on corpus and other big data matching. It does not reach the thinking level of human brain, and cannot deal with the problem of translation differences caused by culture and religion. In addition, many minor languages cannot be translated by machine due to lack of corpus.

What's more, most of the corpus is about developed countries such as Britain and France, and most of the corpus is about diplomacy, politics, science and technology, etc., while there are very few about nationality, culture, religion, etc.

In addition, machine translation can only be used for daily communication at present. If it involves important occasions such as large conferences and international affairs, it is impossible to risk using machine translation for translation work. Professional translators are required to carry out translation work. So machine translation still has a long way to go.

3.Challenges in the training of translation talents in universities

The cultivation of translators is targeted at the market. Professors Zhu Yifan and Guan Xinchao from the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University believe that the cultivation of translators can be divided into four types: high-end translators and interpreters, senior translators and researchers, compound translators and applied translators.

From their names, it can be seen that high-end translators and interpreters and senior translators and researchers talents have high requirements on the knowledge and quality of interpreters, because they have to face the changing international situation, and have to deal with all kinds of sensitive relations and political related content, they should have flexible cross-cultural communication skills. In addition, for literature, sociology and humanities academic works, it is not only necessary to translate their content, but also to understand their essence. Therefore, translators should not only have humanistic feelings, but also need to have a deep understanding of Chinese and western culture.

However, there is not much demand for this kind of translation in the society. Such high-level translation requirements are not needed in daily life and work. The greatest demand is for compound translators, which means that they should master knowledge in a specific field while mastering a foreign language. For example, compound translators in the financial field should not only be good at foreign languages, but also master financial knowledge, including professional terms, special expressions and sentence patterns.

Now we say that machine translation can replace human translation should refer to the field of compound translation talents. Although AI technology has enabled machine translation to participate in creation, it does not mean that compound translation talents will be replaced by machines. The complexity of language and the flexible cross-cultural awareness required in communication make it impossible for machine translation to completely replace human translation.

The last type of applied translation talents are mostly involved in the general text without too much technical content and few professional terms, so it is easy to be replaced by machine translation.

Therefore, the author thinks that what universities are facing at present is not only how to train translation talents to cope with the development of machine translation, but to consider the application of machine translation in the process of training translation talents to achieve human-machine integration, so as to better complete the translation work.

4.The Language environment and opportunities and challenges of the Belt and Road initiative

During visits to Central and Southeast Asian countries in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the major initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. And began to be abbreviated as the Belt and Road Initiative.

According to the Vision and Actions for Jointly Building silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, the Silk Road Economic Belt focuses on connecting China, Central Asia, Russia and Europe (the Baltic Sea). From China to the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea via Central and West Asia; China to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Indian Ocean. The focus of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is to stretch from China's coastal ports to Europe, through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. From China's coastal ports across the South China Sea to the South Pacific.

The Belt and Road "construction is comply with the world multi-polarization and economic globalization, cultural diversity, the initiative of social informatization tide, drive along the countries achieve economic policy coordination, to carry out a wider range, higher level, the deeper regional cooperation and jointly create open, inclusive and balanced, pratt &whitney regional economic cooperation framework.

4.1一带一路的语言环境

The "Belt and Road" involves a wide range of countries and regions, and their languages and cultures are very complex. How to make good use of language, do a good job in translation services, actively spread Chinese culture to the world, strengthen the ability of discourse, and tell Chinese stories well, the first thing to do is to understand the language situation of the countries along the "Belt and Road".

4.1.1The most common language in countries along the "Belt and Road"

There are a wide variety of languages spoken in 65 countries along the Belt and Road, involving nine language families. However, The status of English as the first language in the world is undeniable. Most of the countries participating in the Belt and Road are developing countries, and many of them speak English as their first foreign language. Especially in southeast Asian and South Asian countries, English plays an important role in foreign communication, whether as the official language or the first foreign language. Besides English, more than 100 million people speak Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic and other major languages in the "Belt and Road" countries. It can also be seen that a common feature of languages in countries along the "Belt and Road" is the popularization of English education. English is widely used in international politics, economy, culture, education, science and technology, playing the role of the most important language in the world.

4.1.2The complex language conditions of countries along the "Belt and Road"

The languages spoken in countries along the Belt and Road involve nine major language families and almost all the world's religious types. Differences in religious beliefs also result in differences in culture, customs and social values behind languages. The languages of some countries along the belt and Road have also been influenced by historical and realistic factors, such as colonization, internal division and immigration.

India, for example, has no national language, but more than 20 official languages. India is a multi-ethnic country, a total of more than 100 people, one of the most obvious difference between nation and nation is the language problem. Therefore, according to the difference of language, India divides different ethnic groups into different states, big and small. Ethnic groups that use the same language are divided into one state. If there are two languages in a state, the state is divided into two parts. And Indian languages differ not only in word order but also in the way they are written. In India, for example, Hindi is spoken by the largest number of people in the north, with about 700 million speakers and 530 million as their first language. It is written in The Hindu language and belongs to the Indo-European language family. Telugu in the east is spoken by about 95 million people and 81.13 million as their first language. It is written in Telugu, which belongs to the Dravidian language family and is quite different from Hindi. As a result, a parliamentary session in India requires dozens of interpreters.

These factors cannot be ignored in the process of translation, from language communication to cultural understanding, from text to thought exchange, through the bridge of language to truly connect the people, so as to avoid misreading and misunderstanding caused by differences in language and national conditions.

4.2Opportunities and challenges of the "Belt and Road"

With the promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative, there has been an unprecedented boom in translation. In the previous translation boom in China, most of the foreign languages were translated into Chinese, and most of the foreign cultures were imported into China. However, this time, in the context of the "Belt and Road" initiative, translating Chinese into foreign languages has become an important task for translators. As is known to all, there are many different kinds of "One Belt And One Road" along the national language and culture is complex, the service "area" construction has become a factor in Chinese translation talents training mode reform, one of the foreign language universities have action, many colleges and universities to establish the "area" all the way along the country's small language major, as a result, "One Belt And One Road" initiative to promote, It has brought unprecedented opportunities for human translation. The cultivation of diversified translation talents and the cultivation of translation talents in small languages is an urgent problem to be solved in China. The cultivation of translation talents cannot be completed overnight, and the state needs to reform the training mode of translation talents from the perspective of language strategic development. Only in this way can we meet the new demand for human translation under the new situation of the belt and Road Initiative.

For a long time, the traditional orientation of translation curriculum and training goal in colleges and universities is to train translation teachers and translators in need of society through translation theory and practice and literary translation practice, which cannot meet the needs of society. Since 2007, in order to meet the needs of the socialist market economy for application-oriented high-level professionals, the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council approved the establishment of Master of Translation and Interpreting (MTI for short). After joining the pilot program of MTI, more and more universities are reforming the curriculum and training mode of master of Translation in order to cultivate translators who meet the needs of the society.

Language is an important carrier of culture, and translation is an important link for exporting culture. The quality of translation output also reflects the cultural soft power of a country. With the rise of China, more and more people are interested in Chinese culture, and the number of Chinese learners keeps increasing. Under the background of "One Belt and One Road", excellent translators are urgently needed to spread Chinese culture. With the promotion of "One Belt and One Road" Initiative, the number of other countries learning mutual learning and cultural exchanges with China has increased unprecedeningly, bringing vigorous opportunities for the spread of Chinese culture. Translation talents who understand small languages and multi-lingual translators are needed. They should not only use language to convey information, but also use language as a lubricant for communication.

8 颜静(On Machine Translation Under Lanuguage Intelligence——An Option and Opportunity for Human Translators)

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Abstract

Nowadays the artificial intelligence is sweeping the world, however, the traditional language research and language service industry is facing new challenges. This paper attempts to comb and analyze the development process of language intelligence in artificial intelligence and the development status of language industry under the background of information age to interpret the feasibility of liberal arts translators to engage in machine translation research and necessity to apply machine translation, thus to provide an option for human translators in information age to develop.

Key words

New Libral Arts; Language Intelligence; Machine Translation; Interdisciplinarity

题目

论语言智能之机器翻译——我们的选择和未来

摘要

当今人工智能的热潮席卷全球，而传统的语言研究和语言服务行业却面临着新的挑战。本文通过梳理分析人工智能中语言智能领域的发展历程和信息时代背景下语言行业的发展现状，对文科译者从事机器翻译研究的可行性和应用机器翻译的必要性进行阐述，为信息时代译者的发展路径提供参考。

关键词

新文科；语言智能；机器翻译；学科交叉

1. Introduction

Obviously, we are now in an era of "explosion" of information and knowledge, which makes us have to find ways to deal with it quickly. Language is the manifestation of information, and the tool that can deal with language with complicated information is just computer. It happens that human beings do not have a special organ to perceive language, but carry the image and sound symbols of language through visual and auditory perception, and then form language information through brain processing and abstraction. Therefore, language intelligence also belongs to the research category of "cognitive intelligence". In view of this, computer has carried out the research on language, among which the common research fields are "natural language processing", "language information processing" and "Computational Linguistics". These three are different, but they all have the same goal, that is, to enable computers to realize and express with language, solve language related problems and simulate human language ability. Among them, machine translation is the integration of language intelligence and technology. The comprehensive research of MT in China starts from the mid-1980s. Especially since the 1990s, a number of MT systems have been published and commercialized systems have been launched. In addition, various universities in China have also carried out MT and computational linguistics research, developed various translation experimental systems and achieved fruitful results. In the research of machine translation, it involves not only translation model and language model, but also alignment method, part of speech tagging, syntactic analysis method, translation evaluation and so on. Therefore, researchers must understand the basic knowledge of translation and be proficient in English, Chinese or other languages. Therefore, we say that compound talents with computer and language related knowledge will be more needed in the language industry or the computer field.

2. Chapter 1 Artificial Intelligence in Rapid Development

At the Dartmouth Conference in 1956, the word "artificial intelligence" appeared in the human world for the first time. In the past 65 years, with the in-depth study of science, artificial intelligence seems to have come out of the original science fiction movies and science fictions, and is closer to human daily life step by step. Nowadays, autopilot, machine translation, chess and E-sports robots, AI synthetic anchor, AI generated portrait and so on have been realized and widely known. Artificial intelligence has also moved from logical intelligence and computational intelligence to today's cognitive intelligence.

1.1 The Development of Language Intelligence

According to academician Tan Tieniu, "Artificial intelligence is a technical science that studies and develops theories, methods, technologies and application systems that can simulate, extend and expand human intelligence. Its purpose is to enable intelligent machines to listen, see, speak, think, learn and act, that is, they have the following capabilities——speech recognition and machine translation, image and character recognition, speech synthesis and man-machine dialogue, man-machine games and theorems proving, machine learning and knowledge representation, autopilot and so on. So, from these purposes we can see that language plays a vital role in AI. In order to imitate human intelligence, an advanced form of artificial intelligence is to analyze and process human language by using computer and information technology. We call it "language intelligence". Language intelligence is not only the core part of artificial intelligence, but also an important basis and means of human-computer interaction cognition, whose development will contribute to the whole process of AI and further to let AI technologies to practice. Therefore, it is known as the Pearl on the crown of artificial intelligence.

The concept of “language intelligence” was proposed in 2013 at Beijing Academic Forum on Language Intelligence. However, as mentioned above, its research direction in the computer field has always been called natural language processing (NLP). Its history is almost as long as computer and artificial intelligence. After the emergence of computer, there has been the research of artificial intelligence. Natural language processing generally includes two parts: natural language understanding and natural language generation. The early research of artificial intelligence has involved machine translation and natural language understanding, which is basically divided into three stages.

The first stage is from 1960s to 1980s. In this period, the common method is to establish vocabulary, syntactic and semantic analysis, question and answer, chat and machine translation systems based on rules. The advantage is that rules can make use of human’s own knowledge instead of relying on data, and can start quickly; The problem is on its insufficient coverage, and its rule management and scalability have not been solved.

The second stage starts from 1990s. At this time, statistics-based machine learning (ML) has become popular, and many NLP began to use statistics-based methods. The main idea is to use labeled data to establish a machine learning system based on manually defined features, and to use the data to determine the parameters of the machine learning system through learning. At runtime, by using these learned parameters, the input data is decoded and output. Machine translation and search engines just make use of statistical methods and get success.

The third stage is after 2008, when deep learning functions in voice and image. Subsequently, NLP researchers begin to turn to deep learning. First, they use deep learning for feature calculation or establish a new feature, and then experience the effect under the original statistical learning framework. For example, search engines add in-depth learning to calculate the similarity between search words and documents to improve the relevance of search. Since 2014, people have tried to conduct end-to-end training directly through deep learning modeling. At present, progress has been made in the fields of machine translation, question and answer, reading comprehension and so on.

4. Chapter 3 Language Service Industry with Machine Translation

3.2 Translators with More Professional and Diversified Career Path

3.2.1 The Improvement of Tranlation Ability

3.2.2 The Combination with Other Field

9 谢佳芬（人工智能时代下的机器翻译与人工翻译）

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Abstract

With the continuous development of information technology, many industries are facing the competitive pressure of artificial intelligence, and so is the field of translation. Artificial intelligence technology has developed rapidly and combined with the field of translation，which has brought great impact and changes to traditional translation, but artificial intelligence translation and artificial translation have their own advantages and disadvantages. Artificial translation is in the leading position in adapting to human language logical habits and understanding characteristics, but in terms of translation threshold and economic value, the efficiency of artificial intelligence translation is even better. In a word, we need to know that machine translation and human translation are complementary rather than antagonistic.

Key Words

Machine Translation; Artificial Translation; Artificial Intelligence

题目

人工智能时代下的机器翻译与人工翻译

摘要

伴随着信息技术的不断发展，多个行业面临着人工智能的竞争压力，翻译领域也是如此。人工智能技术快速发展并与翻译领域结合，人工智能翻译给传统翻译带来了巨大的冲击和变革，但人工智能翻译与人工翻译存在着各自的优劣特点和发展空间，在适应人类语言逻辑习惯和理解特点的翻译效果上，人工翻译处于领先地位，但在翻译门槛和经济价值上，人工智能翻译的效率则更胜一筹。总的来说，我们要知道机器翻译与人工翻译是互补而非对立的关系。

关键词

机器翻译;人工翻译;人工智能

1. Introduction

1.1 The History of Machine Translation

The research history of machine translation can be traced back to the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1930s, the French scientist G.B. Alchuni put forward the idea of using machines for translation. In 1933, the Soviet inventor Troyansky designed a machine to translate one language into another. [1]In 1946, the world's first modern electronic computer ENIAC was born. Soon after, American scientist Warren Weaver, a pioneer of information theory, put forward the idea of automatic language translation by computer in 1947. In 1949, Warren Weaver published a memorandum entitled Translation, which formally raised the issue of machine translation. In 1954, Georgetown University, with the cooperation of IBM, completed the English-Russian machine translation experiment with IBM-701 computer for the first time, which opened the prelude of machine translation research. [2] In 2006, Google translation was officially released as a free service software, bringing a big upsurge of statistical machine translation research. It was Franz Och who joined Google in 2004 and led Google translation. What’s more, it is precisely because of the unremitting efforts of generations of scientists that science fiction has been brought into reality step by step. According to the working principle, machine translation has roughly experienced three stages: rule-based machine translation, statistics-based machine translation and deep learning based neural machine translation. [3] These three stages witnessed a leap in the quality of machine translation. Machine translation is more and more used in daily life and even the translation of some texts is almost comparable to artificial translation. In addition to text translation, voice translation, photo translation and other functions have also been listed, which provides great convenience for people's life. It is undeniable that machine translation has become the development trend of translation in the future.

1.2 The Status Quo of Machine Translation

In this big data era of information explosion, the prospect of machine translation is also bright. At present, the circular neural network system launched by Google has supported universal translation in more than 60 languages. Many Internet companies such as Microsoft Bing, Sogou, Tencent, Baidu and NetEase Youdao have also launched their own Internet free machine translation systems. [3] Users can obtain translation results free of charge by logging in to the corresponding websites. At present, the circular neural network translation system launched by Google can support real-time translation of more than 60 languages, and the domestic Baidu online machine translation system can also support real-time translation of 28 languages. These Internet online machine translation systems are suitable for a variety of terminal platforms such as mobile phone, PC, tablet and web and its functions are also quite diverse, supporting many translation forms, such as screen word selection, text scanning translation, photo translation, offline translation, web page translation and so on. Although its translation quality needs to be improved, it has been outstanding in the fields of daily dialogue, news translation and so on.

2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Machine Translation

Generally speaking, machine translation has the characteristics of high efficiency, low cost, accurate term translation and great development potential and etc. Machine translation is fast and efficient, this is something that artificial translation can’t catch up with. In addition, with the continuous emergence of all kinds of translation software in the market, compared with artificial translation, machine translation is cheap and sometimes even free, which greatly saves the economic cost and time for users with low translation quality requirements. What's more, compared with artificial translation, machine translation has a huge corpus, which makes the translation of some terms, especially the latest scientific and technological terms, more rapid and accurate. The accurate translation of these terms requires the translator to constantly learn, but learning needs a process, which has a certain test on the translator's learning ability and learning speed. In this regard, artificial translation has uncertainty and hysteretic nature. At the same time, with the progress of science and technology and the development of society, the function of machine translation will be more perfect and the quality of translation will be better. At the same time, machine translation also has its limitations. At first, machine can only operate word to word translation, which only plays the function and role of dictionary. Then, the application of syntax enables the process of sentence translation and it can be solved by using the direct translation method. When the original text and the target language are highly similar, it can be translated directly. For example, the original text "他是个老师." The target language is "he is a teacher ". With the increase of the structural complexity of the original text, the effect of machine translation is greatly reduced. Therefore, at the syntactic level, machine translation still stays in sentences with relatively simple structure. Meanwhile, the original text and the results of machine translation cannot be interchanged equally, indicating that English-Chinese translation has strong randomness, and is not rigorous and scientific enough. Besides, machine translation is not culturally sensitive. Human may never be able to program machines to understand and experience a particular culture. Different cultures have unique and different language systems, and machines do not have complexity to understand or recognize slang, jargon, puns and idioms. Therefore, their translation may not conform to cultural values and specific norms. This is also one of the challenges that the machine needs to overcome.[4] Artificial intelligence may have human abstract thinking ability in the future, but it is difficult to have image thinking ability including imagination and emotion. [5] Therefore, machine translation is often used in news, science and technology, patents, specifications and other text fields with the purpose of fact description, knowledge and information transmission. These words rarely involve emotional and cultural background. When translating expressive texts, the limitations of machine translation are exposed. The so-called expressive text refers to the text that pays attention to emotional expression and is full of imagination. Its main characteristics are subjectivity, emotion and imagination, such as novels, poetry, prose, art and so on. This kind of text attaches importance to the emotional expression of the author or character image, and uses a lot of metaphors, symbols and other expressions. Machine translation is difficult to catch up with artificial translation in this kind of text, it can only translate the main idea, lack of connotation and literary grace and it cannot have subjective feelings and rational analysis like human beings. In fact, it is not difficult to simulate the human brain, the difficulty is that it is impossible to learn from the rich social experience and life experience of excellent translators. In other words, machine translation lacks the personalization and creativity of human translation. It is this personalization and creativity that promote the development and evolution of language, and what machine translation can only output is mechanical "machine language".

10 熊敏(Research on the English Chinese Translation Ability of Machine Translation for Various Types of Texts)

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Abstract

With the rapid development of information technology,machine translation technology emerged and is gradually becoming mature.In order to explore the ability of machine translation, I adopts two versions of translation, which are manual translation and machine translation(this paper uses Youdao translation) for different types of texts(according to Peter Newmark's types of text). The results are quite different in terms of quality and accuracy.

Key words

machine translation; manual translation; Newmark's type of texts

题目

Research on the English Chinese Translation Ability of Machine Translation for Various Types of Texts

摘要

随着信息技术的高速发展，机器翻译技术出现了，并且逐渐成熟。为了探究机器翻译的能力水平，本人根据纽马克的文本类型分类，选择了相应的译文类型，并且将其机器翻译的版本以及人工翻译的版本进行对比。就质量和准确度而言，译文的水平大相径庭。

关键词

机器翻译；人工翻译；纽马克文本类型

1. Introduction

1.1.Introduction to machine translation

Machine translation, also known as computer translation is a technique to translating through machine translator, such as Google translation and Youdao translation. Machine translation is one of the branches of computational linguistics, ranging from computer science, statistics, information science and so on. Machine translation plays an important role in all aspects. Machine translation can be traced back to 1940s, when British engineer Booth and American engineer Weaver proposed using computer to translate and started to study machines used for translation. However in the 1960s, reports from ALPAC (Automated Language Processing Advisory Committee) showed studies on machine translation had stagnated for a decade. In the 1970s, with the advancement of computer, machine translation was back to track. In the last decades, machine translation has mainly developed into four stages: rule-based machine translation, statistic machine translation, example-based machine translation and neural machine translation.

1.2.Process of machine translation

The process of manual translation is different from that of machine translation. Here is the process of the former. (1) Understand source language. (2) Use target language to organize language. (3) Generate translation. Unlike manual translation, machine translation tends to analyze and code source language first, then look for related codes in corpus, and work out the code that represents target language, generating translation. But they share a common feature, which is that Lexicon, grammatical rules and syntactic structure are taken into consideration. This is one of the biggest challenges for machine translation.

2.Newmark’s type of texts

Peter Newmark divided texts into informative type, expressive text and vocative type according to the linguistic functions of various texts.

2.11Informative text

The core of the informative texts is the truth. It is to convey facts, information, knowledge and the like. The language style of the text is objective and logical. Reports, papers, scientific and technological textbooks are all attributed to informative texts.

2.2Expressive text

The core of the expressive text is the emotion. It is to express preferences, feelings, views and so on. The language style of it is subjective. Literary works, including fictions, poems and drama, autobiography and authoritative statements belong to expressive text.

2.3Vocative text

The core of the vocative text is readership. It is to call upon readers to act in the way intended by the text. So it is reader-oriented. Such texts advertisement, propaganda and notices are of vocative text.

2.4Study Method

Manual translations of the three texts are selected from authoritative versions and universally acknowledged. And machine translations of those come from Youdao Translator. And in this thesis I will compare and evaluate the two methods in word diction, sentence structure, word order and redundancy.

11 陈惠妮=(Study on Pre- editing of Machine Translation - A Case Study of Medical Abstracts)

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Abstract

At present, globalization is accelerating and the market demand for language services is rapidly increasing . Machine translation, as an important translation method, can greatly improve translation efficiency due to its low cost and high speed. However, because of the limitations of machine translation and the differences between Chinese and English language, machine translation is not accurate enough. In order to balance translation efficiency and translation quality, a great number of manual revisions in translation are required for the machine translating texts. Medical papers are specialized, special and purposeful, so it requires accurate,qualified and professional translation. However, the quality of translations by machine is inefficient to meet the high-quality requirements of medical papers translation. Therefore, the introduction of pre-editing can greatly improve the efficiency and quality of machine translation.

Key words

Pre-editing, Machine translation, Medical texts

题目

Study on Pre- editing of Machine Translation - A Case Study of Medical Abstracts

摘要

在全球化加速发展的今天，市场对语言服务的需求迅速增加。机器翻译作为一种重要的翻译途径，由于其成本低、速度快，可以大大提高翻译效率。然而，由于机器翻译的局限性以及中英文语言的差异，机器翻译的准确性不高。为了平衡翻译效率和翻译质量，机器翻译文本需要大量的手工修改。 医学论文具有专业性、特殊性和目的性，要求其译文准确、合格、专业。然而，机器翻译的质量较低，无法满足医学论文对翻译的高质量要求。因此，译前编辑的引入可以大大提高机器翻译的效率和质量。

关键词

译前编辑；机器翻译；医学文本

1. Introduction

Definition of Machine Translation The concept of machine translation was firstly proposed in the 1930s. Since 1940s, the machine translation technology has been evolving from rule-based machine translation (RBMT) to statistical machine translation (SMT), and to neural machine translation (NMT). Machine translation refers to the automatic translation of source language into target language by using a computer system. That is, machine translation refers to the automatic translation of text from one language into another natural language by computer software or other online translation webs. On the basic level, machine translation performs mechanical substitution of words in one language for words in another language, but that rarely produces a good translation, therefore, recognition of the whole phrases and their closest counterparts in the target language is needed. Not all words in one language have equivalents in another language, and many words have more than one meaning. A huge demand for translation is greatly needed in today’s global world, which creates new opportunities for the development of machine translation, attracts more and more attention and becomes one of the current research focuses. Pre-editing means to adjust and modify the source language to make it fit more with the characteristics of the machine translation software before putting the source language before the into machine translation, so as to improve the quality of the translation machine translation (Wei Changhong, 2008:93-94). Pre-editing is to modify the original text before putting it into machine translation software, in order to improve the recognition rate of machine translation, optimize the output quality of translated text and reduce the workload of post-editing. Because pre-translation editing only needs to be modified in one language, the operation is simpler than post-translation editing, which can realize the double improvement of quality and efficiency. A good pre-editing translation can help machine translation more smoothly, thus improving the machine readability and quality of the output translation. Pre-editing is mostly applied in the following situations: one is when the original text is of poor quality and the machine is difficult to recognize the meaning of the sentence, such as user generated content with poor readability and translatability (Gerlach et al, 2003:45-53); Documents that need to be published in multiple languages; Next is when the original text contains a lot of jargon; The last is the original text has a corresponding translation memory bank. If the original text is edited, it can better match the content of the translation memory bank. Machine Translation Mode According to the different knowledge acquisition methods, machine translation modes can be classified as follows: one is rule-based machine translation, which is based on bilingual dictionaries and a library of language rules for each language. The quality of translation depends on whether the source language conforms to the existing rules, but the inexhaustible rules are the hinders of this model. The second mode is machine translation based on statistics. This translation model relies on the principles of mathematics and statistics to find various existing translations corresponding to the translation tasks through the employment of corpus, analyzing the frequency of their occurrence and selecting the translation with the highest frequency for output. The disadvantage of this translation model is that it ignores the flexibility of language and the importance of context. The last one is neural network language model. This model is different from previous translation models in that it uses end-to-end neural network to realize automatic translation between natural languages. At present, the quality of its translation is much higher than that of the previous translation models.

12 蔡珠凤=(The Mistranslation of C-J Machine Translation of Political Statements)

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Abstract

Language is the main way of communication between people. With the continuous development of globalization, the scale of cross-border exchanges is also expanding. However, due to cultural differences and diversity, the languages of different countries and regions are very different, which seriously hinders people's communication. The demand for efficient and convenient translation tools is increasing. At the same time, with the development of network technology and artificial intelligence, recognition technology based on deep learning is more and more widely used in English, Japanese and other fields.

Key words

machine translation; political statements; mistranslation of C-J machine translation

题目

The Mistranslation of C-J Machine Translation of Political Statements

摘要

语言是人与人之间交流的主要方式。随着全球化的不断发展，跨境交流的规模也在不断扩大。然而，由于文化的差异和多样性，不同国家和地区的语言差异很大，这严重阻碍了人们的交流。对高效便捷的翻译工具的需求正在增加。同时，随着网络技术和人工智能的发展，基于深度学习的识别技术在英语、日语等领域的应用越来越广泛。

关键词

机器翻译；政治发言；政治发言中译日的误译

Introduction to machine translation

Machine translation, also known as automatic translation, is a process of using computers to convert one natural language (source language) into another natural language (target language). It is a branch of computational linguistics, one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence, and has important scientific research value.At the same time, machine translation has important practical value. With the rapid development of economic globalization and the Internet, machine translation technology plays a more and more important role in promoting political, economic and cultural exchanges.The development of machine translation technology has been closely accompanied by the development of computer technology, information theory, linguistics and other disciplines. From the early dictionary matching, to the rule translation of dictionaries combined with linguistic expert knowledge, and then to the statistical machine translation based on corpus, with the improvement of computer computing power and the explosive growth of multilingual information, machine translation technology gradually stepped out of the ivory tower and began to provide real-time and convenient translation services for general users.

C-J machine translation software

Today's online machine translation software includes Baidu translation, Tencent translation, Google translation, Youdao translation, Bing translation and so on. Google was the first company to launch the machine translation system, and Baidu was the first company to import the machine translation system in China. In addition, Tencent and Youdao have attracted much attention.Machine translation is the process of using computers to convert one natural language into another. It usually refers to sentence and full-text translation between natural languages. In order to continuously improve the translation quality, R & D personnel have added artificial intelligence technologies such as speech recognition, image processing and deep neural network to machine translation on the basis of traditional machine translation based on rules, statistics and examples.With the increase of using machine translation, the joint cooperation between manual translation and machine translation will also increase significantly in the future. What criteria should be used to evaluate the quality of machine translation? In the evolving field of machine translation, there is an urgent need to clarify the unsolvable questions and solved problems.

The history of machine translation

The research history of machine translation can be traced back to the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1930s, the French scientist G.B. alchuni put forward the idea of using machines for translation. In 1933, Soviet inventor П.П. Trojansky designed a machine to translate one language into another, and registered his invention on September 5 of the same year; However, due to the low technical level in the 1930s, his translation machine was not made. In 1946, the first modern electronic computer ENIAC was born. Shortly after that, W. weaver, an American scientist and A. D. booth, a British engineer, a pioneer of information theory, put forward the idea of automatic language translation by computer in 1947 when discussing the application scope of electronic computer. In 1949, W. Weaver published the translation memorandum, which formally put forward the idea of machine translation. After 60 years of ups and downs, machine translation has experienced a tortuous and long development path. The academic community generally divides it into the following four stages: Pioneering period（1947-1964） In 1954, with the cooperation of IBM, Georgetown University completed the English Russian machine translation experiment with ibm-701 computer for the first time, showing the feasibility of machine translation to the public and the scientific community, thus opening the prelude to the study of machine translation. It is not too late for China to start this research. As early as 1956, the state included this research in the national scientific work development plan. The topic name is "machine translation, the construction of natural language translation rules and the mathematical theory of natural language". In 1957, the Institute of language and the Institute of computing technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperated in the Russian Chinese machine translation experiment, translating 9 different types of more complex sentences. From the 1950s to the first half of the 1960s, machine translation research has been on the rise. The United States and the former Soviet Union, two superpowers, have provided a lot of financial support for machine translation projects for military, political and economic purposes, while European countries have also paid considerable attention to machine translation research due to geopolitical and economic needs, and machine translation has become an upsurge for a time. In this period, although machine translation is just in the pioneering stage, it has entered an optimistic period of prosperity. Frustrated period（1964-1975） In 1964, in order to evaluate the research progress of machine translation, the American Academy of Sciences established the automatic language processing Advisory Committee (Alpac Committee) and began a two-year comprehensive investigation, analysis and test. In November 1966, the committee published a report entitled "language and machine" (Alpac report for short), which comprehensively denied the feasibility of machine translation and suggested stopping the financial support for machine translation projects. The publication of this report has dealt a blow to the booming machine translation, and the research of machine translation has fallen into a standstill. Coincidentally, during this period, China broke out the "ten-year Cultural Revolution", and basically these studies also stagnated. Machine translation has entered a depression. convalescence（1975-1989） Since the 1970s, with the development of science and technology and the increasingly frequent exchange of scientific and technological information among countries, the language barriers between countries have become more serious. The traditional manual operation mode has been far from meeting the needs, and there is an urgent need for computers to engage in translation. At the same time, the development of computer science and linguistics, especially the substantial improvement of computer hardware technology and the application of artificial intelligence in natural language processing, have promoted the recovery of machine translation research from the technical level. Machine translation projects have begun to develop again, and various practical and experimental systems have been launched successively, such as weinder system Eurpotra multilingual translation system, taum-meteo system, etc. However, after the end of the "ten-year holocaust", China has perked up again, and machine translation research has been put on the agenda again. The "784" project has paid enough attention to machine translation research. After the mid-1980s, the development of machine translation research in China has further accelerated. Firstly, two English Chinese machine translation systems, ky-1 and MT / ec863, have been successfully developed, indicating that China has made great progress in machine translation technology. New period(1990 present) With the universal application of the Internet, the acceleration of the process of world economic integration and the increasingly frequent exchanges in the international community, the traditional way of manual operation is far from meeting the rapidly growing needs of translation. People's demand for machine translation has increased unprecedentedly, and machine translation has ushered in a new development opportunity. International conferences on machine translation research have been held frequently, and China has made unprecedented achievements. A series of machine translation software have been launched, such as "Yixing", "Yaxin", "Tongyi", "Huajian", etc. Driven by the market demand, the commercial machine translation system has entered the practical stage, entered the market and came to the users. Since the new century, with the emergence and popularization of the Internet, the amount of data has increased sharply, and statistical methods have been fully applied. Internet companies have set up machine translation research groups and developed machine translation systems based on Internet big data, so as to make machine translation really practical, such as "Baidu translation", "Google translation", etc. In recent years, with the progress of in-depth learning, machine translation technology has further developed, which has promoted the rapid improvement of translation quality, and the translation in oral and other fields is more authentic and fluent.

The problem of machine translation at present

Error is inevitable Many people have misunderstandings about machine translation. They think that machine translation has great deviation and can't help people solve any problems. In fact, the error is inevitable. The reason is that machine translation uses linguistic principles. The machine automatically recognizes grammar, calls the stored thesaurus and automatically performs corresponding translation. However, errors are inevitable due to changes or irregularities in grammar, morphology and syntax, such as sentences with adverbials after "give me a reason to kill you first" in Dahua journey to the West. After all, a machine is a machine. No one has special feelings for language. How can it feel the lasting charm of "the tenderness of lowering its head, like the shame of a water lotus? After all, the meaning of Chinese is very different due to the changes of morphology, grammar and syntax and the change of context. Even many Chinese people are zhanger monks - they can't touch their heads, let alone machines. Bottleneck In fact, no matter which method, the biggest factor affecting the development of machine translation lies in the quality of translation. Judging from the achievements, the quality of machine translation is still far from the ultimate goal. Chinese mathematician and linguist Zhou Haizhong once pointed out in his paper "fifty years of machine translation": to improve the quality of machine translation, the first thing to solve is the problem of language itself rather than programming; It is certainly impossible to improve the quality of machine translation by relying on several programs alone. At the same time, he also pointed out that it is impossible for machine translation to achieve the degree of "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance" when human beings have not yet understood how the brain performs fuzzy recognition and logical judgment of language. This view may reveal the bottleneck restricting the quality of translation. It is worth mentioning that American inventor and futurist ray cozwell predicted in an interview with Huffington Post that the quality of machine translation will reach the level of human translation by 2029. There are still many disputes about this thesis in the academic circles.

13 陈湘琼Chen Xiangqiong（Study on Post-editing from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory ）

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Abstract

With the development of technology，machine translation methods are changing. From rule-based methods to corpus-based methods，and then to neural network translation，every time machine translation become more precise, which means it is not impossible the complete replacement of human translation by machine translation. But machine translation still faces many problems until today such as : fail to translate special terms, incapable to set the right sentence order, unable to understand content and culture background etc. All of these need to be checked out and modified by human translator, so it can be predict that the model Human + Machine will last for a long period. This article will discuss mistakes made in machine translation and describe what translators should do in post-editing based on the skopos theory and functional equivalence theory

Key words

machine translation，post-editing，skopos theory，functional equivalence theory

题目

基于功能对等视角探讨译后编辑问题与对策

摘要

随着科技的不断发展，机器翻译方法也在不断变革，从基于规则的机器翻译，到基于统计的机器翻译，再到今天基于人工神经网络的机器翻译，每一次变化都让机器翻译变得更精确，更高质。这意味着在不远的将来，机器翻译完全代替人工翻译成为一种可能。但是直至今天，机器翻译仍然面临许多的问题如：无法准确翻译术语、无法正确排列句子语序、无法分辨语境等，这些问题依然需要人工检查和修改。机器翻译自有其优点，人工翻译也有无可替代之处，所以在很长一段时间内，翻译都应该是机器+人工的运作方式。本文将基于翻译目的论和功能对等理论，对机器翻译可能出现的错误之处进行探讨，并且旨在描述译者在进行译后编辑时需要注重的方面，为广大译员提供参考。

关键词

机器翻译，译后编辑，翻译目的论，功能对等

2. Functional Equivalence and Skopos Theory

Functional equivalence theory is the core of Eugene Nida’s translation theory, who is a famous translator and researcher in America. It aims to set a general standard for evaluating the quality of translation. In his theory Nida points out that “translation is to convey the information from source language to target language with the most proper and natural language.”(Guo Jianzhong, 2000:65) He holds that translator should not only achieve the information equivalence in lexical sense but also take into account the cultural background of the target language and achieve the equivalence in semantics, style and literature form. So the dynamic equivalence contains four aspects: 1. lexical equivalence；2.syntactic equivalence；3.textual equivalence；4.stylistic equivalence, which basically construct and guide the idea of this article.

In 1978, Hans Vermeer put forward skopos theory in his book Framework for a General Translation Theory. In this theory, he believes that translation is a human activity which means it has special purpose in itself like other human activities.(Nord, 2001:12) Also, there are some rules that the translator should follow in the progress of translation: 1.purpose principle; 2.intra-textual coherence; 3.fidelity rule, which exactly shows its correlation with machine translation.

According to these two theories, we can start now to explore some principles and standard that translator ought to obey in post-editing. Firstly, efficiency and accuracy are really important because the translator’s purpose is obviously raising money in comparatively short time. If they fail to provide translation with high quality or if they unable to finish the job before deadline, the consequence will be relatively bad. Secondly, translators need to achieve equivalence in lexical level, syntactic level, textual level and stylistic level in post-editing for the reason that machine translation can be always misunderstood when they are dealing with words and sentences with special background knowledge. Thirdly, it is almost impossible for machine translation to achieve communicative goal and fulfil cultural exchange that human brain is indispensable to jump over the gap. And more details will be discussed later on.

3. Machine Translation Versus Human Translation

The dream that natural language can be translated by machine come true in the late twentieth. Though not completely perfect, machine translation still fulfil the requirement of translation in technical manuals, scientific documents, commercial prospectuses, administrative memoranda and medical reports.(W.John Hutchins, 1995:431)

Researchers divide traditional machine translation method into three categories:Rule-Based, Corpus-Based and Hybrid methods, and all of them have their own merits and demerits. The first one builds the translation knowledge base on dictionaries and grammar rules, but it is not so practical for languages without much correlation and highly rely on human experience. The second one builds the translation knowledge by making full use of the corpus, which is still the mainstream of today’s machine translation. The last one mix both of rule and corpus and successfully raise the efficiency of translation, but it is tough to be managed because of complex system and weak extend ability. (Hou Qiang, 2019:30)

According to Martin Woesle, the advantages and disadvantages of machine translation can be obvious. For advantages, machine translation has its speed and availability, low costs, efficiency and welcome of cooperation. However, it can not satisfy some special situation such as: noisy background, ill connectivity, short of electricity, corpus limitation and cultural sensitivity. (Martin Woesle, 2021:203)