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Updated: 2003-10-20 01:00

Getting lost in the translation

機器翻譯風險高 人工投入不可少

Getting lost in the translationRelying on online translation tools can be a risky business, especially if you expect too much of it. For the time being, might translation be something best left to the humans?

Earlier this month the small German town of Homberg-an-der-Efze, north of Frankfurt, had to pulp an entire print run of its English-language tourism brochure - after officials used an internet translating tool to translate the German text.

According to one report, the brochure was "rendered meaningless" by the online tool.

Martin Wagner, mayor of Homberg-an-der-Efze, admits that the town made a "blunder". As a result of officials trying to save money by getting the Internet to do a translator's job, a total of 7500 brochures had to be binned.

This story highlights some of the pitfalls of translating online. There are many instant translation tools on the web - but they are best used for individual words and short phrases, rather than for brochures, books or anything complex.

For example, one of the joys of the web is that it grants you access to an array of foreign news sources. Yet if you were to use a translation tool to try to make sense of such reports, you could end up with a rather skewed and surreal view of the world.

Why is foreign text "rendered meaningless" when passed through an online translation tool? According to Sabine Reul, who runs a Frankfurt-based translation company, translation tools have limited uses - and problems arise when web users expect too much from them.

"A translation tool works for some things," says Reul. "Say a British company wants to order a box of screws from a German supplier. A sentence like 'We need one box of a certain type of screw' is something that a machine could translate reasonably accurately - though primitively."

Yet when it comes to translating blocks of text - words and sentences that convey thoughts and sentiments - online tools are bound to fail, she adds. "Beyond simple sentences, the online process simply doesn't work because machines don't understand grammar and semantics, never mind idiom and style."

"Language is not a system of signs in the mechanical sense of the word", says Reul. "It is a living medium that is used to convey thought. And that is where machines fail. Human input is indispensable as long as computers cannot think."

Reul and other translators look forward to the day when clever computers might help to ease their workload - but that time has not arrived yet.

"It would be nice if computers could do the job. And certainly the quest for machine translation has prompted a lot of linguistic research that may prove valuable in unforeseen ways. But experience to date confirms that even the most subtle computer program doesn't think - and you need to be able to think in order to translate."

Until the dawn of thinking computers, online translation tools are best reserved for words, basic sentences and useful holiday phrases. For tourism brochures, newspaper reports and the rest, you will have to rely on some old-fashioned "human input".

(Agencies)

依靠在線翻譯工具是比較危險的,尤其是你對它抱有過高的期望,那就更危險了。目前,翻譯工作最好還是由人類來做嗎?

本月初,法蘭克福北部的德國小鎮Homberg-an-der-Efze不得不銷毀一整批英文版旅游手冊,因為這些手冊是官員們采用一種網絡翻譯工具從德語翻譯過來的。

有報道說:在線工具譯出來的手冊 “毫無意義”。

Homberg-an-der-Efze鎮長馬丁·瓦格納承認他們犯了一個“大錯”。官員們之所以借助互聯網來完成翻譯工作,是想節省開支,結果7500本旅游手冊不得不作廢。

這個例子突出體現了在線翻譯的一些缺陷。互聯網上有很多即時翻譯工具,但是它們最擅長翻譯的是個別單詞和短語,而不是宣傳冊、書籍或任何復雜的資料。

例如,使用互聯網的樂趣在于它幫你獲得大量國外新聞資料。但是如果你打算用翻譯工具來翻譯這些報道,你最終看到的只能是一個曲解了的、超現實主義的世界。

為什么外語原文通過在線工具翻譯后就變得“毫無意義”了呢?據法蘭克福一家翻譯公司的老板薩拜因·勒爾說,翻譯工具的用途是有限的,當使用者期望值過高的時候,問題就出現了。

勒爾說:“翻譯工具只能翻譯某些東西,例如一家英國公司想要從德國供應商那里定購一盒螺絲釘,其中有這樣一句話:‘我們需要一盒某型號的螺絲釘。’機器能夠相當準確地翻譯這樣的句子——盡管比較簡單粗糙。”

然而當翻譯帶有思想和感情的段落和句子時,在線翻譯工具注定會失敗。她補充說:“除了簡單的句子之外,在線翻譯其無法完成他的內容,因為機器無法理解語法和語義,更不用說習慣用語和文體了。”

勒爾說:“語言不是機械的單詞符號系統,而是一種可以用來表達思想的生動的媒介。這是機器所做不到的。只要機器無法思考,人力投入就必不可少。”

勒爾和其它翻譯工作者們希望有一天聰明的電腦能夠幫助它們減輕工作壓力——但是現在還不是時候。

“如果電腦可以做翻譯工作,那就太好了。對于機器翻譯的不斷探索無疑已經激發了大量語言學的研究,這些研究可能在一些不可預見的方面是頗有價值的。但是,到目前為止的經驗證明即使是最精確的電腦程序也無法思考,翻譯工作則需要你去思考。”

在會思考的電腦出現之前,在線翻譯工具最好還是用來翻譯單詞、基本的句子和有用的節日短語。而像旅游手冊、新聞報道等內容,你還將不得不依靠一些老式的“人力投入”。

(中國日報網站譯)

 
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