Regional survey: M(A)T in North America
Elliott Macklovitch · 1999
We examine two North American case stud-ies, each of which illustrates a different strat-egy for coming to terms with high-volume, high-quality translation. The first eschews MT in favour of translation memory technology; the second employs a controlled language to simplify the input to an MT system. Both strategies betray a certain dissatisfaction with the current state of machine translation, al-though neither alternative, it turns out, fully lives up to its expectations. 1 Caveat Emptor Allow me to begin with a few disclaimers. The first are not my own, but are taken from the Web sites of