MACHINE TRANSLATION VS. HUMAN TRANSLATION A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACCURACY, FLUENCY AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATENESS
Keywords:
Machine translation, Human translation, fluency, accuracy, cultural appropriateness,machine excel, Language Model, contextual meaningAbstract
This study analyses selected English texts and compares their translations produced by a machine translation system with translations produced by a human translator. Particular attention is paid to semantic accuracy,grammatical and stylistic naturalness,preservation of contextual meaning, and the appropriate rendering of culture-specific elements and idiomatic expressions. The findings suggest that machine translation can effectively convey general informational content and produce relatively fluent translations; however, human translation demonstrates greater flexibility in dealing with ambiguity,cultural references, idiomatic expressions, and context-dependent meanings.
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