Machine Translation: Its Pros and Cons
“A renewed international effort is gearing up to design computers and software that smash language barriers and create a borderless global marketplace.”
Machine translation (MT) is a procedure whereby a computer program analyzes a source text and produces a target text without further human involvement. In point of fact, machine translation typically does involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and post-editing. An exception to that rule might be, e.g., the translation of technical specifications (strings of technical terms and adjectives), using a dictionary-based machine-translation system.