Online translation systems
Hello!
We are students from Kaunas University of Technology from the faculty of Humanities. We conduct research of translation systems on the Internet. Could you please take a few minutes of your time and answer the following questions? It would really help us to gather information.
Thanks in advance. Have a nice day!
1. Do you use online translation systems?
2. Do you use “ Google translate”?
3. Do you use VDU translation system?
4. Do you use SYSTRAN translator?
5. Do you use any other online translator?
Yes (fill in)
- promt
- verciu.lt
- http://www.freetranslation.com/
- worldlingo; translate.reference
- wikiled translator
- Microsoft translator
- Babelfish translator on yahoo.com
6. Which translation system do you use most often?
Other (fill in)
- verciu.lt
- worldlingo
- Don't use any because translations provided are 80% inaccurate. Also I speak fluent English so there is no need for translation software.
7. Are you satisfied with translation results?
8. Do you notice any translation mistakes?
9. What kind of mistakes you notice?
Other (fill in)
- Sometimes systems of translation could not translate the abbreviations
10. Do you often notice not translated words in the translated text ?
11. Which languages do you translate most often?
Other (fill in )
- English-French; French-English
- LIthuanian - Italian; Italian - Lithuanian
- dont use any.
- Lithuanian - Spanish; Spanish - Lithuanian
- English - French; French - English
- Lithuanian - Norvegian
12. Do you think translation systems are very useful?
13. Do you think translation systems need to be improved?
14. How do you offer to improve translation systems?
- Ask people who know the language well to suggest their own translations and then improve future translations based on these suggestions.
- collect a good database of reliable manual translations into a system
- more work with sentences and context
- Translation systems could be better.Pay more attention in the sense of the text, in addition to pay attention to time, and link between the words.
- ...
- I don't know
- It would be great that texts would be understandable. I don't have any idea how to reach that. Maybe cmputer programs can't deal with semantic of languages and improvement could be only partial.
- pay attention at cultural and grammar meanings, also watch what position of the words are in the sentence.
- don't have an idea.
- Check more system because everybody can add words (e.g. google) and make relations between words
15. Why do you use translation systems?
Other (fill in)
- helps to comunicate with people from abroad
- It helps when I want to understand websites in another language.
- It helps me at leisure
- i don't use this kind of software
- It helps me when i need to translate 1-2 words fast
- To read websites not in English, Russian or Lithuanian
- To comunicate with people from abroad
- it helps to talk to people from other countries