Machine Translation - How it Works , What Users Expect , and What They Get
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Machine translation (MT) systems are now ubiquitous. This ubiquity is due to a combination of increased need for translation in today's global marketplace, and an exponential growth in computing power that has made such systems viable. And under the right circumstances, MT systems are a powerful tool. They offer low-quality translations in situations where low-quality translation is better than no translation at all, or where a rough translation of a large document delivered in seconds or minutes is more useful than a good translation delivered in three weeks' time.
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