%0 Journal Article %T Desarrollos en la traducci¨®n autom¨¢tica: esperando a¨²n una traducci¨®n de alta calidad %A Rosanne Caroline Tertoolen %J Caracteres : Estudios Culturales y Cr¨ªticos de la Esfera Digital %D 2012 %I Editorial Delirio %X In a world which is everytime more open and with an excess of open source data, we have the idea of having access to all information. Nonetheless, something that looks like a minor barrier at first sight keeps us from accessing all this information: the language barrier. If you don¡¯t belong to a certain language group or if you haven¡¯t learned the language you don¡¯t have access to this information. In this respect, machine translation is of great importance. Despite 60 years of research we still haven¡ät reached a fully automatic high quality translation. In this article we describe the development in machine translation and we try to understand why translation is so dificult for computers. %K translation %K machine translation %K transfer system %K ALPAC %U http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol1n2noviembre2012/desarrollos-en-la-traduccion-automatica-esperando-aun-una-traduccion-de-alta-calidad/