The Role of automated translation and its limitations

The study aims to highlight the role of machine and its limitations in the service of translator, and to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of machine translation and translation memories in light of some examples from Google translator with the two languages combinations from Arabic into English and vice versa, by highlighting the important role that the machine translation played in the era of technology on the one hand. The study also concludes through exploring the reality of machine translation limitations, to determine its negative points, most notably that: machine translation is enable to translate idiomatic expressions, collocations and specialized language or the language for a specific purposes (terms), in addition to the inerrability of machine translation without the intervention of a human translator to adapt it, however, it has been noted a positive results about machine translation in either a general and simple sentences or in proximate languages (Latin languages for example). In conclusion, the study found that machine translation can’t replace a human translation but it can in the same time help him for saving time, energy and financing, particularly in the technology era as all fields.