Machine translation today

Mikel L. Forcada
Dublin City University
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Machine translation (MT) is the translation, by means of a computer using suitable software, of a text written in the source language (SL) which produces another text in the target language (TL) which may be called its raw translation. This definition seems to imply that the resulting TL translation may be used as a professional product would, but machine translation and professional translation, even if closely related in purpose, are not interchangeable products (Sager 1994: 261).

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