ÇEVİRİ MOTORLARININ GÜNÜMÜZDEKİ ROLÜ
THE ROLE OF THE TRANSLATION SOFTWARE IN PRESENT

Summary/Abstract: With the appearance of the internet, economics, art and science changed as well as translation got a new point of view. The reason is that the people can get information from all over the world any time they want and the opportunity to communicate with each other, but all this brought problems with. In this shrinking world one cannot know all languages, so how can we get the information we need transform in a language we know. Since translators cannot do this work in temporal manner, this lead scientists to search for different solutions. At this point scientists created translation software like AltaVista, googletranslate, trados etc. This kind of software try to feed the need and serve 24 hours a day. Usually the service which is free of charge can translate words as well as sentences and even whole pages. So people in different countries can communicate with each other easier and they can follow works in different languages easier. Also international trade has grown as an impact also. But there are question marks regarding the correctness of the translations. Some work and theoretical approach towards translation software today will be shown. Later they will be adapted to the literary work of Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”. The biggest factor in choosing this work is the reason that it was translated by Canbek and Ülner. So an objective evaluation can be made with a critical approach. The translations of two different translators will be compared with sample sentences by AltaVista babelfish and googletranslate. AltaVista’s babelfish is the first web based translation service while googletranslate is the most up to date web based translation software. Many translators, linguists and engineers work on these two software which are “statistical machines” updating all the time and saving all kinds of documents and evaluating them. At this place artificial intelligence appears. Thus information in source language can be expressed in different ways in target language. Like Reiss and Bozkurt also emphasize it will be shown through the two different translations that translation cannot have a standard and is limited by the creativeness of the translator. In this frame we will stay on the basic part of grammar which is morphology, phonology and syntax, as well as on psychic state, cultural and environmental factors.

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