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False:
- MT is a waste of time because you will never make a machine that can
translate Shakespeare.
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False:
- There was/is an MT system which translated The spirit
is willing, but the flesh is weak into the Russian equivalent of
The vodka is good, but the steak is lousy, and hydraulic
ram into the French equivalent of water goat. MT is useless.
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False:
- Generally, the quality of translation you can get from
an MT system is very low. This makes them
useless in practice.
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False:
- MT threatens the jobs of translators.
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False:
- The Japanese have developed a system that you can talk to on the
phone. It translates what you say into Japanese, and translates the
other speaker's replies into English.
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False:
- There is an amazing South American Indian language
with a structure of such logical perfection that it solves the
problem of designing MT systems.
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False:
- MT systems are machines, and buying an MT system should
be very much like buying a car.
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