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249482 Resource 114456 114534 114534 1265230612945 1265230612945 Controlled Language Translation - Japanese language poorly served by machine translation

Japanese is at a definite disadvantage when it comes to automatic translation systems.

Machine language translation cannot now – and may never – replace a human’s writing skills and mastery of linguistic nuance. As Ry Beville points out in his article entitled <a href="http://www.japantoday.com/category/commentary/view/no-substitute-for-human-touch-in-translating">No substitute for human touch in translating</a>, machine translation’s shortcomings become especially apparent when dealing with languages that differ greatly in linguistic structure. A professional translator, Beville works in Japanese and English -- a language pair that translates especially poorly in automatic systems. While Beville gives full credit to practical online dictionaries and other computer-based language aids, he remains convinced that human-generated translations are here to stay: “Such [translation] programs, while convenient in a casual setting, still have a long way to go before they become truly viable...It’s all the meaning that is lost, especially between Japanese and English,” writes Beville. “Linguistic science tells us these languages are worlds apart. For a native-English speaker, Japanese is a level-five language, meaning the hardest to master (a distinction it shares with Arabic).” Thus, the risk of machine translation errors definitely rises when translating to and from languages with little resemblance to English. <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/">Language Translation, Inc.</a> in San Diego, California is specialized in legal, medical, and business <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/services/translation.html">language translation,</a> and we translate to and from <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/languages/index.html">over 40 languages</a>, including <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/languages/japanese-translation.html">Japanese</a>. Our company has provided <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/services/translation.html">translation</a> and <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/services/interpreting.html">interpreting</a> to <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/about/clients.html">companies worldwide</a> for over 20 years. Betty Carlson 9 application/xml false certified japanese translation certified translation services conference interpreting service human translation services language translation machine translation professional translation telephone interpreting service telephonic interpreting service translation services Language Translation, Inc. Subscribe to Language Lines, our monthly newsletter, for more news and information about the world of translation. http://www.languagetranslation.com/newsletters/index.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 anevin 72.214.60.131 false true false false true 200517 false false true false false false true 114456 blog blogsite/LanguageTranslation/web