Teaching Machine Translation to the Students Majoring in the Humanities

Abstract

Problems of machine translation (MT) are currently the most topical vectors determining the development of translators’ proficiency content, which is reflected in the diversity of approaches to improving the algorithms of knowledge applications in this field. We recognize the urgency of theoretical substantiation of the students’ training quality (we mean the training of the future philologists and translators) in terms of using ICT, since their proficiency in the designated sphere might facilitate their natural and rapid adaptation to professional activity and competitiveness in the labour market. The analysis of professional literature showed the importance of using computer technology while training future translators in machine translation and proved that not all the reserves for its effective provision have been used. The urgency of the problem and lack of its proper development stipulated the purpose of the article ‒ to analyse and develop educational tools that contribute to the formation of a system of knowledge and skills related to the use of modern computer technologies in the process of professional activity (on the material of the English, Chinese and Ukrainian languages). A spectrum of the MT programs classified based on human’s involvement in the process of converting the original text into a target text (FAMT, HAMT, MAHT) has been represented in the article. The criteria (professional competency of the future translators in the field of the English-Ukrainian MT, professional competency of the future translators in the Chinese-Ukrainian MT), indicators (content-significant, procedural-technological and lexicographic search-oriented) and levels (high, sufficient, satisfactory, low) specifying the degree of students’ proficiency (knowledge, skills and abilities) in using modern computer technology within the framework of profession-oriented activities have been elaborated. The proposed authors’ teaching techniques included the use of the competence-oriented and context-based approaches to the educational process, the integration of traditional and new interactive methods / forms of learning, the combination of classroom and extra-class activities involving ICT. We see the prospects of our research in the further study of educational aspects of machine translation grounded on the latest developments in the fields of comparative linguistics and general theory of translation (theory of regular correspondences, methods of representing knowledge, optimizing and improving linguistic algorithms, in particular).

A Study of English Translation Theory Based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Random Matrix

“…erefore, to improve the accuracy of machine translation, the processing of natural language is taken as the core problem of machine translation system research. e rapid development of arti cial intelligence technology in natural language processing technology and the rapid development of the Internet, has led to a boom in machine translation research, which has become a hot topic not only in the eld of scienti c and technological research, but also in the keen research of linguists all over the world [5,6].…”

Translating Technical Terms of the Latin and Greek origin from English into Chinese and Ukrainian: Linguistic and Pedagogical Background

“…on the material of English, Chinese, Ukrainian; to undertake linguistic analysis of the source (original) texts and target (translated) texts; to perform pre-and post-editing of texts; to use electronic dictionaries in the genre-marked context; to choose appropriate lexical units in computer dictionary sources in compliance with the branch of knowledge the text belongs to, etc. (Bogush, Korolova et al, 2019).…”

Exploring the Ideas of Integrating the Teaching of Information Technology and English Translation

“…Xui, Q constructed the English culture teaching system by using the image processing information technology of octree structure, which has the advantages of full three-dimensional modeling, updatable, flexible, compact, etc., and can be applied to the English culture teaching, and it has a certain enhancement effect for the English culture teaching [11]. Bogush, A. M and other scholars have applied the machine translation technology of information technology, in the teaching of English translation and pointed out that machine translation is the hottest vector that determines the development of translators' proficiency [12]. Jiang, Y pointed out that at present, traditional university English teaching cannot improve students' English translation ability due to the single and outdated teaching mode, so it is proposed to build an innovative English teaching mode by melting traditional English translation teaching from the information technology environment [13].…”