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ability of machine to find the most appropriate technique to solve translation problems on text above.
From the example above, it can be said that translations techniques applied by Google Translate influence the quality of translation. Appropriate technique
applied by the machine in translating the text will result a good translation, while inappropriate one will produce inaccurate and unacceptable translation.
Based on the phenomena above, the researcher tries to investigate the translation techniques applied by the machine translator and its impacts to the
quality translation, in terms of accuracy and acceptability, of an article text on web page. The researcher chooses Google Translate by Google Inc. as the thesis
subject because it is the best online MT recently. In this research, the researcher analyzes an article text in en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party web page. The
article text describes about Boston Tea Party event. The researcher uses this URL as source of data because Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia ever made
in the world and Boston Tea Party is an important historical event ever happened in America.
B. Research Limitations
This research focuses on analyzing translation techniques applied by Google Translate and the quality translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability
in translating on en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party web page.
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C. Problem Statements
1. What techniques are applied by Google Translate in translating web page en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party.
2. How is the quality of translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability.
D. Research Objectives
Based on problem statements, the objectives of the research are: 1. To find out the translation techniques applied by Google Translate in
translating web page en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party 2. To find out the translation quality in terms of accuracy and acceptability
E. Research Benefits
The research is conducted to find out the translation technique applied by Machine
Translator Google
Translate in
translating the
URL: en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party article text and its quality in terms of
accuracy, and acceptability. Therefore, the result of this research is expected to give contribution to the
students and lecturers of English Department in their attempts to learn about how Google Translate is in translating web page. This thesis may become as a
reference for students and lecturers in studying subject related with researcher‘s
thesis.
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F. Research Methodology
This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Qualitative method is applied because the data of this research are all senteces taken on
en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party. Descriptive method is to describe translation techniques and to find out the quality of translation, in terms of
accuracy and acceptability, of Google Translate, conducted by collecting classifying, analyzing data, and then drawing conclusion.
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CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Definition of Translation
