Machine Translation
MT is an area of the localization and translation industry that many companies have yet to crack, but so far, we’re on the verge of looking at ways in which it can assist or even help us fully in our translation efforts. Machine translation is quite self-explanatory, it entails the process of translating words from one language to another via the sole means of a computer system or artificial intelligence. Some may see this concept and be instantly turned away by the potential ideas of errors, misunderstandings and miscommunications created due to the translation process moving entirely through that of a computer. However, nowadays the idea of MT is more than plausible, especially when we consider that of human post-editing (MTPE), whereby professionally trained linguists or translators, analyse the MT data output, fixing any inaccuracies by correcting and resolving any linguistic or semantic errors.

