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Machine translation
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<p>Machine translation is use of computational techniques to <a href="/facts/Translation/2foI82so">translate</a> text or speech from one <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">language</a> to another, including the contextual, idiomatic and pragmatic nuances of both languages. </p><p>Early approaches were mostly <a href="/facts/Rule-based_machine_translation/BwS2KWX3">rule-based</a> or <a href="/facts/Statistical_machine_translation/rzJ8Gfyj">statistical</a>. These methods have since been superseded by <a href="/facts/Neural_machine_translation/BsjdmTSt">neural machine translation</a> and <a href="/facts/Large_language_model/WnogWVJY">large language models</a>. </p>