In twelve pages computer aided translation is discussed in terms of advancements and applications with human translators preferred because of the necessary narrow definition of computer assisted translation applications. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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in computer aided translation in the last half-century that it has been the focus of study. It still is not possible to use one of the translator tools that
exist now to adequately translate conversational language or even Shakespeare, but there are applications that have met with great success. These applications tend to be narrowly defined in terms
of linguistics and idiomatic use of language. Technical texts translate better than more creative efforts. Those applications are better left to human translators.
Introduction The Internet truly does create a common ground between people all around the world. Most of its sites
are in English, simply because the Internet has resulted largely from efforts of those in English-speaking countries and when combining our populations, we have the greatest number of computer users
in the world. The Tower of Babel still is exerting influence, and lessening that influence is the object of those researching computer aided translation.
Example of the "Quick" Translation The search engine Altavista.com provides a translation utility from Systran, which is highly useful in
translating those Internet sites that are in a language unfamiliar to the user. This quick translation is not intended to be that which has the highest degree of accuracy
available, but there are times that its final results are more than questionable. As example, a user went to Altavistas site to translate
this original paragraph to Spanish: Warfare has changed dramatically during the past century. Fighting still was largely hand-to-hand combat in World War I, but Germany was able to destroy