Errors in machine translation from German into Russian (based on articles of German-language media and their translations)

The article is devoted to the study of errors and inaccuracies made by machine translation systems. The reasons for the appearance of errors of various types in the texts of machine translations of German-language articles of well-known mass media into Russian, made by popular translation programs, are analyzed. A classification of errors is given. The lexical-semantic and lexical-stylistic, normative-usual, grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors are highlighted. Typical “weaknesses” of machine translation from German into Russian are revealed, which should be paid attention to during post-editing of the text of such a translation. It is pointed out that the analysis of typical errors in automatic translation can also be taken into account in the process of improving the algorithm of their work by the developers of machine translation systems.