번역 도구로서 챗GPT 활용 가능성 연구 －미국 대학 홈페이지 영한 번역을 중심으로－ = A Study on Using ChatGPT as an Aid in Translating English into Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper explores the possibility of using ChatGPT as a translation aid with the view that machine translation and human translation will coexist in a complementary way. ChatGPT itself is not a tool d eveloped for translation, but it has been developed for use with numerous languages.
It also has the ability to modify and improve answers by interacting with users, making itself very useful for translation. In order to measure its capacity as a translation tool, the author of the paper first reviewed Korean translations of the English text of a U.S. university web page performed by Google Translate, Papago Translate, and ChatGPT, and then compared each translation with the others. The comparison demonstrated that ChatGPT was better than the other two translators in terms of consistency in translation and number of errors. None of the three tools, however, produced a translation superior enough to replace a human translator. Next, the author tried using ChatGPT in post-editing to enhance the quality of translated texts. The author found that it was very difficult and time-consuming to obtain satisfactory results. Therefore, it could not be considered efficient.
The paper concludes that the quality of artificial intelligence (AI) translation is not at the level of replacing human translation yet. It also concludes that the unsatisfactory post-editing performance of ChatGPT most likely stems from its insufficient d ata on Korean language. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of ChatGPT as a translation aid, at least in terms of English to Korean translation, further research on EnglishKorean translation should be conducted. The resulting data will hopefully facilitate higher quality machine assisted translations.