The document discusses machine translation (MT), which uses computers to translate text from one natural language to another. It traces the origins of MT back to the 17th century, though the field began in earnest in the 1950s. The process of MT is complex, first decoding the meaning of the source text before interpreting its grammar, semantics, syntax, and cultural references to translate it accurately. Several popular free online MT tools are mentioned, including Google Translate, Babel Fish, and World Lingo.

1. MACHINE TRANSLATOR MT Artificial Intelligence LANGUAGE ENGINEERING Computatonal linguistics LINGUISTICS ANA CRISTINA GUERRA LASO

2. ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD “ Machine Translator” or MT comes from the word “Translation” that derives from the Latin “translatio” which itself comes from trans-fero, ="to carry across". The modern languages use words for translation derived from that source and from the alternative Latin traduco ("to lead across").

3. Origins of Machine Translator The machine translation starts in 1950 although there are some tags from earlier periods In 1629 René Descartes proposes a universal language, with equivalent ideas in different tongues sharing one symbol. But was in the year 1933 when the Russian Petr Smirnov- Troyanskii patents a device for transforming word-root sequences into their other-language equivalents.

4. WHAT IS MACHINE TRANSLATION?? Is the application of computers to the task of translating texts from one natural language to another. For example:

5. THE PROCESS The procedure is very complex : First of all :decode the meaning of the main text Then: the translator must interpret and analyze all the features of the text. This process requires a knowledge of grammar Semantics syntax idioms of the source language culture of its speakers

6. Some free translators Google Translator Descartes translator World lingo translator Yahoo Babel Fish Free Translator. Com There are much more free dictionaries but I can’t mention all of them.

7. MAY BE YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THEM: FREETRANSLATOR.COM

8. GOOGLE TRANSLATOR

9. YAHOO BABEL FISH

10. WORD LINGO

11. FOR COME ANA CRISTINA