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Machine translation

Machine translation is the use of computational techniques to translate text or speech from one language to another, including the contextual, idiomatic, and pragmatic nuances of both languages.

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Machine translation and signed languages

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Machine translation

Nodes124
Edges123
Triples248
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016129
Components1

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Machine translation

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related to Further reading · 39
Machine translation → Academic Press, An Introduction, Babble, Business, Cambridge, Cohen, Eisenstein, Encyclopedia Americana, Gideon, Harold, Introduction, ISBN, Jacob, John, June, Lewis-Kraus, London, MA, Machine, Mehandru
related to 1960–1975 · 24
Machine translation → According, ALPAC, Association, Automatic Language Processing Advisory, Brigham Young University, Committee, Computational Linguistics, DDR, Defense Research, Director, Engineering, English, French, German, Logos MT, Mormon, MT, National Academy, Real, Researchers
related to Origins · 22
Machine translation → Al-Kindi, APEXC, Arabic, Birkbeck College, Booth, Braille, Cleave, England's, English, French, In, London, Others, René Descartes, Rockefeller Foundation, September, Several, The, University, Warren Weaver
related to 1975–1980s · 15
Machine translation → Beginning, English, French Postal Service, German-Ukrainian, Kharkov State University, Minitel, MT, Russian, SYSTRAN, SYSTRAN's, The, Trados, Translation Memory, Various, Xerox
related to Statistical · 14
Machine translation → Canadian, Canadian Hansard, CANDIDE, English-French, EUROPARL, European Parliament, Google, IBM, In, SMT's, Statistical, The, United Nations, Where
related to External links · 13
Machine translation → An, April, Archived, IAMT, International Association, John Hutchins, June, Minority LanguagesJohn Hutchins, PDFs, Publications, September, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineMachine Translation Archive
related to Machine translation and signed languages · 13
Machine translation → American Sign Language, ASL, English, Following, However, In, It, Once, Researchers Zhao, TEAM, The, Therefore, This
related to Surveillance and military · 12
Machine translation → Arabic, Babylon, Dari, DARPA, Following, Office, Pashto, The Information Processing Technology, TIDES, US Air Force, Western, Within
related to Named entities · 10
Machine translation → Chicago, Fabrionix, George Washington, In, It, July, Microsoft, Smith, The, Vice President
related to Evaluation · 9
Machine translation → Different, EBMT, English, For, French, SMT, The, There, These

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Machine translationis ause of computational techniques to translate text or speech from one language to another0.90text
peopleinstance ofrefer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world0.80text
organizationsinstance ofrefer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world0.80text
companiesinstance ofrefer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world0.80text
and places that have a proper nameinstance ofrefer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world0.80text
1 July 2011instance ofspace and quantity0.80text
Facebookinstance ofin utilities0.80text
or instant messaging clients such as Skypeinstance ofin utilities0.80text
Google Talkinstance ofin utilities0.80text
MSN Messengerinstance ofin utilities0.80text
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Google Translate may accidentally violate client confidentiality by exposing private information to the providers of the translation toolsinstance ofLawyers who use free translation tools0.80text

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