Machine translation systems as an aid for German language translators The aim of the article is to evaluate the usefulness of two machine translation systems, Google Translate and DeepL Translator, to German language translators. Both specialist texts and standard ones have been analysed in terms of translation errors and linguistic defects that required human intervention in the machine translations. A discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the systems has resulted in their general assessment as an aid in the translation process.
The following article is an attempt to polemize with some stereotypes about translating of technical texts. One of such stereotypes is that there are no polysemic and homonymic words in technical languages. On the grounds of the analysis there has been an attempt to show that the awareness of the specificity of the special languages with their vertical and horizontal stratification and of the complex relations between terms and notions, and the ability to identify the translating problems can help to produce an equivalent text. The author shows it on examples from the German and the Polish language which have been found in the „German-Polish Dictionary of Science and Technology" edited by M. Sokołowska, A. Bender and K. Żak, and in the „German-Polish Dictionary of Sanitary Engineering" edited by E. Krzemińska-Niemiec.
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