My Conversations with ChatGPT
Machine Translation (MT) and translations generated by AI have brought about a paradigm shift in the translation industry. The output of MT will continue to improve, especially when associated with clients’ translation memories and human editing. Language Service Providers are adapting and are including MT in their processes, when MT is applicable. While linguists will continue to be essential in the process, their role will shift from that of translators to validators of content generated by MT. At Excel Translations, we wanted to know what AI thinks about all of this and decided to have an open conversation on the matter with ChatGPT. I will regularly publish a question and ChatGPT’s response, uncensored.
QUESTION 47:
How does a machine translation system deal with words that have multiple meanings in the source language?
Chat GPT’s Response:
A machine translation system uses context to address words with multiple meanings in the source language. By analyzing the surrounding words and sentence structure, the system attempts to determine the intended meaning. However, context alone might not always be sufficient, leading to potential inaccuracies in translation, especially when context is ambiguous.
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