Machine Translation and the Assessment of Translation Quality. A Critical Review of

Abstract

In the globalised world we are living in, the need to quickly access and exchange information in different languages is vital. The enormous amount of information that is shared and exchanged by millions of people around the world needs to be made available in different languages to guarantee democratic access to it. Thus, the fast and trustful translation of that information is essential. That is the reason why Machine Translation (MT) has played a key role in recent decades, especially since companies like Google made their MT engines available globally