The Analysis Of Google Translate As A Machine Translation Tool

The MA thesis analyses the success of Google Translate as a machine translation (henceforth MT) tool. For the better understanding of the translation process, I describe some general definitions of and approaches to translation. The thesis discusses machine translation and gives a thorough overview of its development and its positive and negative aspects. In my MA thesis, I present different MT tools, those which are available for personal computers, and those that are available online. Furthermore, I focus the usefulness of such tools and the strategies of translations they employ. Finally, I describe the currently most successful MT tool, Google Translate. In the research part of the thesis, I compare translations of three types of texts made by Google. In my MA thesis, I include three different thematic fields of texts: tourism, since it is a topic with quite general language that is used every day, economics with its specific terminology and a literary text with some phraseology. Lastly, I analyse the mistakes with the aim to point out the reasons for their appearance.