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Machine translation errors are classified into groups of three grammatical levels: clause errors, clause-complex errors and textual errors, with a purpose to unravel causes leading to these errors. As illustrated with examples, clause complex presents different grammatical features from clause and the structural differences between Chinese and English at clause-complex level are the fundamental source of machine translation errors. This research, from perspectives of translation from Chinese to English and translation from English to Chinese, categorized clause-complex level structural differences between English and Chinese. The effects of these differences on machine translation are also analyzed, while future improvement suggestions on machine translation technology are provided accordingly.
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This research is sponsored by the grant of National Natural Science Foundation No. 61672175, the 2016 Key Project of the National Languages Committee (ZDI135-30), and the Science and Technology Development Project of Guangdong Province, China (2017A020220002).
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Ge, S., Wu, S., Chen, X., Song, R. (2019). A Grammatical Analysis on Machine Translation Errors. In: Chen, J., Zhang, J. (eds) Machine Translation. CWMT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 954. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3083-4_1
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