Machine translation

Machine translation

The process of translating text from one language to another using computers instead of human translators.

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source language

Translation & localization; Machine translation

The source language is the language of the text that is to be translated. Typically, this is the authored language of the text. The source language is the same as the TMX specification “srclang” ...

target language

Translation & localization; Machine translation

The target language is the language the source language text should be translated to.

test set

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A pair of source and target language data, typically containing of several thousands of pairs used in the evaluation process.

tokenization

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Tokenization is the process of separating words from punctuation and symbols into tokens.

tokens

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Tokens are the basic unit in a machine translation process. Tokens are a sequence of characters, such as words, punctuation or symbols, separated by a space.

toolchain

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A “toolchain” is a series of linked or “chained” programming tools used in a series where the output of an upstream tool become the input for a “downstream” tool.