Sunday, March 26, 2006

What is Machine Translation?

Okay - This was supposed to be the first post on this Blog. Here it goes - the definition of Machine Translation.

Machine translation (MT) is the application of computers to the task of translating texts from one natural language to another. One of the very earliest pursuits in computer science, MT has proved to be an elusive goal, but today a number of systems are available which produce output which, if not perfect, is of sufficient quality to be useful in a number of specific domains.

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