Translation Process and Product of Google Translate in Translating Health Articles from English into Indonesian
- DOI
- 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.69How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- translation error, translation process, translation product, google translate
- Abstract
Google Translate is the most popular machine translation used by most people in the world. It, then, makes the translation quality of Google Translate very important. This study is a qualitative research which aims to describe the translation errors found in the translation process of Google Translate in translating health articles from English into Indonesian, and the quality of the translation product in target language. This study applies Keshavarz’s (1999) and Vilar et al.’s (2006) framework of errors analysis in translation. The data are two articles about the treatment using herbal products which are gained from Medical News Today website. The result of the analysis shows that the process of Google Translate translation still needs some improvements in translating words which are related to the culture and the language system of the TL, which gives impact to the quality of the translation product. This study attempts to give inputs as a contribution to make a better translation for Google Translate, in order to avoid the same mistakes of translation which might happen in the future
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dian Zelina Fitriyani PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Translation Process and Product of Google Translate in Translating Health Articles from English into Indonesian BT - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 361 EP - 365 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.69 DO - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.69 ID - Fitriyani2019/06 ER -