Machine translation
Machine
translation (MT) is a process whereby a computer program analyzes a
source text and, in principle, produces a target text without human
intervention. In reality, however, machine translation typically does
involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and
post-editing.
MT
usually cannot produce a good translation of text, because
recognition of whole phrases and their closest counterparts in the TL
is needed.
MT
can use a method based on linguistic rules, which means that worlds
will be translated in a linguistic way – the most suitable words of
the TL will replace the ones in the SL. It is often argued that the
success of MT requires the problem of natural language understanding
to be solved first.
