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Machine translation
Use of software for language translation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Machine translation is use of computational techniques to translate text or speech from one language to another, including the contextual, idiomatic and pragmatic nuances of both languages.
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Not to be confused with Computer-assisted translation, Interactive machine translation, or Translator (computing).
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Early approaches were mostly rule-based or statistical. These methods have since been superseded by neural machine translation[1] and large language models.[2]