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GISTING TRANSLATION [1 record]

Record 1 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation and Interpretation
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
DEF

A translation, usually done by a machine-translation software, that is informative but not good enough (content and form) for publication.

CONT

Internet has proved a ripe market for fully automatic machine translation, both as an online tool for quick "gisting" translations of short documents, and as a tool for surfing Web sites in unfamiliar languages.

Key term(s)
  • gisting MT
  • gisting machine translation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction et interprétation
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
DEF

Traduction, normallement faite par un logiciel de traduction automatique, qui est informative mais pas assez bonne (contenu et forme) pour être publiée.

Spanish

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