SSRScientific and Social Research2661-43322981-9946Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/ssr.v7i7.11607ArticleCurrent Tendencies in Translation Studies from Machine Translation Perspective: A Case Study on Spanish-Chinesehttps://artdesignp.com/journal/SSR/7/7/10.26689/ssr.v7i7.11607GarcésCarmen Valero,HuLiangjian2025772025-08-12The landscape of translation studies has been profoundly reshaped by the continued development of machine translation (MT), which is frequently associated with artificial intelligence (AI) contemporarily. While studies with specific topics related to MT keep emerging, it would be interesting and beneficial to have a panoramic view of current investigations in translation studies from a machine translation perspective, with language pairs perhaps not that common, such as Spanish-Chinese. In this paper, with VOSviewer, the authors intend to provide a bibliometric analysis of the published articles available online related to translation studies from the angle of machine translation with the language combination Spanish-Chinese. Moreover, a quantitative and qualitative analysis will be conducted on the same group of papers subject to bibliometric analysis, to have an overall understanding of the research topics, methods applied, texts used, and the findings achieved.

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