Cross-Cultural Communication
Assessment of the Translation and Post-editing of Machine Translation (MT) with Special Reference to Chinese-English Translation
Abstract
The current research reports the real performance of machine translation engines (DeepL and GPT-3.5) in translating Classical Chinese into Modern English as well as the post-editing quality of GPT-3.5. The statistical data reveals that: 1) machine translation saves more time and processing energy than human translators; 2) GPT-3.5’s performance in Chinese-English translation is better than Deepl, and it has the advantage of post-editing and self-evolution; 3) Human translators’ ability of semantic processing is superior than DeepL and GPT-3.5. Thus human translators and machine translation engines shall have a good cooperation in improving the accuracy, comprehensibility and fluency of translated texts.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13178
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