This paper presents an overview of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), which is currently the dominant approach in Machine Translation (MT) research. In Way and Hearne (2010), we describe how central linguists and translators are to the MT process, so that SMT developers and researchers may better understand how to include these groups in continuing to advance the stateof-the-art. If these c...

Little attention has been given to the treatment of formulaic expressions in language technology during the past few decades, although such expressions are in fact extremely common both in conversation and in written discourse. ComputerAssisted Translation (CAT) tools are currently the most widely used language technology tools among professional translators. In this paper, I intend to determin...

1. At the last MT Summit, Martin Kay stated that there should be “greater attention to empirical studies of translation so that computational linguists will have a better idea of what really goes on in translation and develop tools that will be more useful for the end user.” Does this mean that there has been insufficient input into MT processes by translators interested in MT? Does it mean tha...

�ere are two classical applications of the automatic translation of natural language. Assimilation is translation when a gist of the meaning is su�cient, and speed and convenience are prioritized. Dissemination is translation with the intent to communicate, so there is usually a prede�ned quality threshold. �e most common assimilation scenario is cross-lingual web browsing, where fully automati...

Computer Aided Translation (CAT) Tools are essential in the current market. However, one ofthe main disadvantages of most commonly-used CAT tools, like Trados, MemoQ, and more is thatthey not accessible to visually-impaired translators. This critical disadvantage limits their jobopportunities market.Most studies that conducted on accessibility tools for differentlanguage pairs rather than Arabi...

This first half of this general survey covers MT and translation tools in use, including translators workstations, software localisation, and recent commercial and in-house MT systems. The second half covers the research scene, multilingual projects supported by the European Union, networking and evaluation. In comparison with the United States and elsewhere, the distinctive features of activit...

Current machine translation (MT) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) can enable the production of high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is it feasible to translate a literary work (fiction, short story, etc) using such an MT+PE pipeline? This paper offers an initial response to this question. An essay by the American writer Richard Powers, cur...

Recent studies and reports have shown that Machine Translation (MT) is about to by-pass the translation profession. In this article we will argue that this development is due to the translation profession's inability to resolve the tension between its traditional professional values and reference system, and the new objectives of translation technology. We hold that a change in the translator's...