He smiled and added, "In a situation like this, I prefer not to rely upon mechanical translation- that may cause more problems than it solves."
Even through the mechanical translation the terrible regret was evident.
The new, dumb version of the OOB absolutely could not do mechanical translation of natural languages.
Even foreign-language countries depended almost completely on mechanical translations of Anglo-American wordwooze for their fiction.
"Talk to me," said the uniformed kone, the monotonous, mechanical translation giving no hint of emotion or inflection.
Linguistic analysis and programming for mechanical translation (1961)
Faster than the mechanical translation.
Maybe mechanical translation would be better.
The pain factor remains approximately what it would be in mechanical translation via starship.
Missing is coverage of more important areas of linguistics, like computational linguistics, mechanical translation, lexicography, language analysis by computer, and some others.
