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The Alignment function of the Machine assisted human translation (MAHT) is a program that is able to automatically align the target texts with the source. In the following discussion, the Alignment function will be tested with six articles of different genres from Taiwan Panorama Magazine. The correctness of the translation pairs will be a reference for building the database of the Fully automatic high-quality translation (FAHQT).
This thesis is consisted of six chapters. In the Introduction, the reader is provided with not only the structure of the thesis but also the background, the purpose and the field of this research. The explanation of Machine translation, and the selected MAHT, the Alignment function, and the evaluation criteria of the Alignment function will be presented in Chapter One. The object of study, the procedure and the method will be presented in Chapter Two. The testing result of the six translation pairs will be discussed in Chapter Three. In terms of the unaligned translation pairs, a further analysis will be presented in Chapter Four followed by a conclusion, Chapter Five.
The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. The correctness of the Alignment function is approximately 30% which can be a reference for the database of the FAHQT. 2. In terms of the percentage of the correctness, there is a major difference (52.37%~4.83%) among these six translation pairs. This difference could be caused by the genres of each article as well as the writing style of both author and translator. A further research of this difference is suggested. 3. There are two reasons for the unaligned translation pairs. The first reason is the misinterpretation of the translator. The other reason is the translation is incompatible with the database of the FAHQT despite of the fact that the translation is correct. 4. The misjudgment of the Alignment function is another cause for the unaligned translation pairs.
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