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Schairer, Karen – Hispania, 1996
Evaluates three commercial computer-based language translation programs' translation of a university social sciences telephone survey from English to Spanish. The three programs, "Spanish Scholar,""Spanish Assistant," and "Spanish Amigo," were rated as unacceptable in their quality of translations by native and near-native Spanish speakers. (nine…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software Evaluation, Hypothesis Testing