A Comparative Study of Literary Translation Abilities by Major Online Translation Tools

Abstract

This paper reports a comparative study of literary translation abilities by four major online translation tools, including Google, Bing, Baidu and Youdao. The results show that the online translation tools’ performances in literary translation at present are not as good as imagined in lexical level, cultural level and rhetorical level. Anyway, with the development of artificial intelligence and information technology, the literary translation abilities of those online translation tools will be improved.