Over 60 years ago, scientists confidently claimed that translation would be fully handled by machines in “the next few years.” But today, in 2015, adequate machine translation is still not within our grasp. While technology can increase productivity, it is still no substitute for human translators.
To read more about where machine translation technology is today and some of the challenges associated with it, check out Nataly Kelly’s article in the Huffington Post on “Why Machines Alone Cannot Solve the World’s Translation Problem.”