Using Dynamic Language Corpora in Web-based Translation; An Analysis of Error Factors

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Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistics which has enjoyed remarkable progress due to the technological advances in communication and networking industries. The application of the worldwide web is no longer limited to search for information or providing data. The increasing development of new technologies offered in internet has created new fields of interest. Online translation is one of these new fields, which is currently experiencing the early stages of its development. The most significant feature of such a translation is the use of dynamic linguistics corpora, which has an interactive and statistics-based foundation and is constantly updated. Delving into the mechanisms of web-based translation using dynamic corpora the present study surveys different factors causing errors in web-based translation from Persian into English, especially cultural factors. Although the findings show serious problems in this way, it seems that the new advanced algorithms in standard translation software can take hopeful steps toward the perfection of this technology.

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