MT | How Long Will it Take for Machine Translation to Reach the Level of Human Translation?

Machine Translation (MT), also known as automatic translation, is the process of using a computer to convert one natural language (source language) into another natural language (target language). It is a branch of computational linguistics, one of the core technologies of artificial intelligence, and has important scientific research value. At the same time, MT has important practical value; with the rapid development of economic globalization and the Internet, machine translation technology is playing an increasingly important role in promoting political, economic, and cultural exchanges.

As early as the ancient Greek era, someone proposed the idea of ​​using mechanical devices for language translation; however, only after the advent of computers did the dream of machine translation gradually become a reality. The American mathematician and engineer Warren Weaver, known as the originator of machine translation, mentioned the idea of ​​machine translation many times in various conversations and letters in 1947, and in July 1949 published his The extensive and far-reaching memorandum-”Translation”, formally raised the issue of machine translation. In the following 60 years, machine translation research has experienced a difficult and tortuous development process, with success and…