This article briefly reviews the current state of Machine Translation (MT) (understood to refer to computer systems that attempt some degree of automatic natural language translation). Particular reference is made to two operational systems and to the training needs of students who will be the professional translators of the immediate future. The experiences of teaching MT to modern language students at the University of Exeter using a commercially available system are described; an overview of the main features of the system is given, along with samples of translation output and indications of how such material may be pedagogkally exploited.
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Derek Lewis (1997) studied this question.