From this description , it should be clear that TM systems do not translate : Indeed , some researchers consider them to be little more than a search-and-replace engine , albeit a rather sophisticated one ( Macklovitch and Russell 2000 ) .
what’s been forgotten in translation memory in envisioning machine translation in the information future
Elliott Macklovitch Graham Russell
If a new input string can not be found exactly in the translation database , a search is conducted for close ( or `` fuzzy '' ) matches of the input string , and these are retrieved together with their translations for the translator to manipulate into the final , output translation . From this description , it should be clear that TM systems do not translate : Indeed , some researchers consider them to be little more than a search-and-replace engine , albeit a rather sophisticated one ( Macklovitch and Russell 2000 ) . We can illustrate this with respect to the TM entries in ( 1 ) , taken from the Canadian Hansards : ( 1 ) a .
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