Abstract:
The question that would be answered in this study was: How does TM translate abbreviations in
the SLT into the TLT? The research method used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The
sources of data were 2 Indonesian abstracts written by S2 students of Lambung Mangkurat
University as the SLT. The abstracts were then translated into English using Google Translate as
TLT. The results show that, in general, TM can help translators translate SLT into TLT.
However, when it translated abbreviations of SLT TM could partly translate Indonesian text as
the SLT into English as the TLT. Some were kept remained in the same form, some others were
translated if there were enough hints that preceeded or followed, and some were translated in
different versions.
Keywords: Translation, Translation Machine, text, Source Language Text, Target Language
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