El traductor automático en los comercios chinos de Cataluña: una herramienta para eliminar la barrera lingüística

Liu, Ting

El traductor automático en los comercios chinos de Cataluña: una herramienta para eliminar la barrera lingüística

Citation

Liu, T. El traductor automático en los comercios chinos de Cataluña: una herramienta para eliminar la barrera lingüística. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53868

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Abstract

Most first-generation Chinese immigrants in Catalonia are freelancers and run a local business. The insufficient level they have of the official languages prevents them from understanding legal and administrative documents, which are essential for running a business. The aim of this paper is to research whether machine translators can help Chinese immigrants have a basic comprehension of the above-mentioned documents and to know the opinion of Chinese shopkeepers on machine translation. On the one hand, three legal and administrative documents were selected in Catalan and Spanish. A personal translation proposal was made, and an automatic translation with the engines DeepL, Google Translate, Baidu and Niutrans. These translations were compared with the MutNMT platform based on BLEU, chrF3 and TER metrics. On the other hand, a questionnaire was developed with Google Forms and shared among Chinese merchants. The results showed that Google and DeepL are two engines that offer better translations with basic comprehension of those documents. The answers obtained from the questionnaires showed that the use of machine translation is a reality in most Chinese enterprises.