Machine Translation and Technical Communcation
http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/1993/PDFs/Pg405408.pdf

Bennett, Winfield Scott
STC Proceedings
1993

Abstract:

Machine translation, the use of computers for translating between languages, is only now coming of age, just at a time when there is increasing need for such technology. Views of machine translation range from realistic assessments to extravagant statements for and against the technology. The reality is that machine translation can provide high-speed automated quality translation depending on a variety of factors; it is not a panacea for all translation problems. Successful machine translation requires human-computer interaction which promotes the strengths of each. Machine translation has reached a stage at which it can contribute to multilingual technical communication.