How does “automatic translation” work?
There are two main approaches to automatic translation: Knowledge-based or symbolic, using linguistic knowledge, and statistical, using text correspondences learned from large bodies of translation examples. ¡TradúceloAhora! uses a symbolic transfer aproach, illustrated in the diagram below. If you would like to learn more about automatic translation, you can read Martin Kay’s brief note about it, or John Hutchins’ general introduction from the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics.
