A NEW LOOK AT THE TRANSLATOR'S ROLE: THE PROBLEM OF USING A MACHINE TRANSLATION

Abstract

This article is focused on some vital problems of linguistics and translation, such as: the role of a translator as a creative person in the translation process, machine translation systems, criteria for assessing the quality of machine translation (MT), the cooperative work of a translator and a machine translation system, as well as strategies for effective post-editing of the translation. The author states it is quite possible to use the MT (even in its current state) in many areas of science and business. The article presents numerous examples of machine translation of texts from various spheres of life, especially the Internet, which have a rather satisfactory quality. The author makes an attempt to define which niches in the field of translation can be entrusted to MT, and which - to a translator whose work remains a creative process up till now.