Name :
Cipto Prasetio Sutikno
Student-ID : 18611407
Class : 4SA05
Subject : Computer-Aided Translations [2nd Task]
Comparison of Five Machine Translations
(Ginger, SDL, Systran, Wordbee, and Trados)
Here is a comparison of five MT (Machine Translation);
Ginger, SDL, Systran, Wordbee and Trados. This comparison contains of the
superiority and frailty on those MTs. Some of them are a paid software and most
of them are a browser MT.
So, without further adieu, let’s get started!
1.
GINGER
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The
Superiority of Ginger :
As Shown on the picture above, Ginger has a feature called
Grammar Checker. The Ginger’s Grammar Checker is capable to correct the
structure of grammar in most of any form or sentence.
Let’s take a look on the picture below. The Ginger’s Grammar
Checker changed the verb in the sentence into past participle. Moreover, this
feature changes the verb into a correct verb which supposed to be;
As shown on the picture below, I tried to explore the
Grammar Checker in form of gerund. Astonishing, the Grammar Checker was also
capable of fixing the word to gerund;
You can also click on the purple-colored font which will
give you a more alternative corrections that suits you best.
If you ever tried the Google Translator MT, you might found
the target translation was often a failure in tenses. Now let’s see how the
Ginger works on the picture below;
In addition, the Ginger’s Grammar Checker can change the
singular noun into plural noun. The word car changes into cars;
To summarize
on Ginger’s MT, You learn
the topics that are most relevant to you, those that cause most of your writing
mistakes. You practice by correcting your own sentences, instead of textbook
learning examples that are not necessarily relevant for your specific use of
English. You learn faster because the learning program is personalized to meet
your needs. No need to practice topics that you already know, or that are too
advanced for you.
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The
Frailty of Ginger :
Unfortunately for Ginger, if you were trying to translate a
sentence or even a paragraph, you are ought to download the software which is
about 50Mb size, thus you can translate words, sentences, or even the whole
paragraph.
Furthermore, the other weakness is the translation feature
of this software is cannot translate the text naturally. We tried to test the
software with a lyric of a song. However, it cannot translate very well.
Hence,
it slows down the speed of your PC to some extent, but
when you stop it from working on the browser the speed is improved. Ginger’s Machine Translation would be suitable for
translating an official document which can translate word by word or literal
translations.
2.
SDL
·
The
Superiority of SDL :
SDL
announced FreeTranslation.com, a website translation that enables translators,
both individuals and businesses, to translate documents, websites, and typed
text with a very simple way. Moreover, it is displayed instantly and always
free. Just type the text or upload the document you want to translate on the
Choose File bar(s). Thus, FreeTranslation.com became one of the most popular
sites of its kind. The file types that you can upload on this website; .doc(x),
.ppt(x), .odt, .pdf & .txt. The maximum file size is 5Mb. The result of
translation? The result, as follows;
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The Frailty of SDL :
As
you can see the picture above, the Target Language is not translated very well,
this Target Language are the same as the Google Translator for comparison but
way worse. Perhaps if you’re trying to find a meaning of difficult word in
English or some other language, the SDL is a way to go. Hence, the SDL Machine Translation is suits best for documents or
articles.
2.
SYSTRAN
Too bad, I don’t find any superiority or advantageous on
Systran, or maybe there IS, I just cannot find it. On Systran MT, You’d only
get 15 Source Language (SL) and Target Language (TL), furthermore, there’s no
Indonesian language translation.
Since there’s no English-Indonesian translation and vice
versa, I’d try to pick the Japanese-English translation. The following picture
is the result;
Here’s the romaji derived on translation above, and the
correct meaning;
The Systran MT cannot translate the whole sentence, only
translates some words of a sentence and there’s still some mistakes in
translating the meaning. As you see, there is a hiragana “ひとり” which sounds “hitori”. The “hitori” here
isn’t meant to “1 person” as in kanji “一人”.
4. WORDBEE
A
web-based application that allows interaction between the project manager, translator
and proofreader in real time as well as simultaneous translation. Wordbee helps translator work better and faster. Wordbee
Machine Translation lets us translate complete documents like Google Translate
and the Microsoft Translator. Unfortunately, I couldn’t install the software
because it took a long long time to download the installer file.
5. TRADOS
If a translator wants to translate context from source
language into the target language, this MT gives us the advantage than any kind
of MT to attach the text from Microsoft word, Open Office and even PDF. So we
can save time to translate in simultaneous.
Then, Trados can save the terminology and glossary. Trados
has storage to save the result of translation, so translator does not need to
translate again. Therefore, Trados is very useful for translators.
Too bad I couldn’t make any research to this application
because it’s way too when downloading Trados.
