Editing Machine translation (section)

{{short description|Computerized translation between natural languages}}
{{distinguish|Computer-assisted translation|Interactive machine translation|Translator (computing)}}
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[[File:WordLensDemo5Feb2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A mobile phone app translating Spanish text into English]]
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'''Machine translation''' is use of computational techniques to [[translation|translate]] text or speech from one [[language]] to another, including the contextual, idiomatic and pragmatic nuances of both languages.

Early approaches were mostly [[Rule-based machine translation|rule-based]] or [[Statistical machine translation|statistical]]. These methods have since been superseded by [[neural machine translation]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 October 2016 |title=Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning Upgrade |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-translate-gets-a-deep-learning-upgrade |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=IEEE Spectrum |language=en}}</ref> and [[Large language model|large language models]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-23 |title=Google Translate vs. ChatGPT: Which One Is the Best Language Translator? |url=https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/151950/google-translate-vs-chatgpt-which-one-is-the-best-language-translator |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=PCMag UK |language=en-gb}}</ref>