The Role of Machine Translation (MT) in Translation Services

Learning languages is considered as one of the crucial issues nowadays. This fact is true for a number of reasons. On top of it, to eradicate the conflict possibly occurred due to poor communication between nations. Another reason is to strengthen global relations via understanding each other cultures. Finally, to enhance external trade between countries. Another important factor to be taken into account is translation. Through the translation process, cultures, documents, catalogs and etc.. can be translated into different languages for people to read and understand. Finally, performing machine translation (MT) can benefit not only a businessman but also a buyer and anyone seeks for information and knowledge. This is because MT saves money, time and effort. However, an MT can not takeover the human translator's own job as the machine can not produce a fully automatic high quality translation. Therefore, it is still in need to a human interaction either before, during or after the translation process. This book outlines some definitions, advantages and the future of machine translation. It also presents a comparison between human and machine translation out put.

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Khawdn has obtained a BA in English in 1986 from University of Sebha / Libya. He has worked for more than 25 years TESOL at the Libyan schools and universities. He has also obtained an MA in English-Arabic / Arabic-English Translation in 2004 at Salford University/UK. Now, he is an associate professor at Misurata University teaching Translation.