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Appendix 1. Experiments in Sight Translation and Full Translation
Appendix 1. Experiments in Sight Translation and Full Translation
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Security Council Meeting, consecutive interpretation 2.0 102.0 Sight translation 9.7 21.0 E`u11 translation 37.6 5.4 Although the sight translation was four times faster than the full translation and of comparable quality, it would be dangerous to conclude from this that present translation output could be quadrupled 35
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The time taken by him in successive approximation probably involves choices among optional transformations, seeking the best base from which final stylistic polishing may be made in order to recapture the flavor of the original. On the other hand, the machine does its approximating by moving through successive choices among ungrammatical versions.
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