Journal of English Language and Culture
Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Journal of English Language and Culture

Pre-Editing of Google Neural Machine Translation

Alvin Taufik (Bunda Mulia University)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Jun 2020

Abstract

Even with the new Machine Translation (MT) platform available in Google today (Neural, as compared to the previous Statistical one in the previous years), the output is not always satisfactory. This is even more obvious in specific contexts and situations. Research has shown that the implementation of rules for the process prior to and the one that follows the input activities into an MT (often referred to as the pre-editing and post editing process) has proven to be fruitful (Gerlach, et. al., 2013; Shei, 2002). However, to the best knowledge of the researcher, no research on pre-editing rules on Indonesian input into MT has been conducted. This research is significant because it might increase efficiency and effectiveness of MT, especially for the language pair Indonesian-English. For that reason, this research intends to identify the pre-editing rules required to create a solid basis to translate Indonesian Source Text (ST) into English Target Text (TT). This research adopts the product-oriented research. The results show that in the pre-editing process, the length of the sentence, the conjunctions (subordinative and correlative), and the inappropriate ST words should be the focus of attention.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

english-language-culture

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Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Culture (JELC) is a journal of English Language and Culture Department of Universitas Bunda Mulia. It consists of a collection of research papers and articles written by professionals and academicians in the field of English language and ...