The Obama White House has put its force behind machine translation (MT) as it could be judged last week from the “Strategy for American Innovation” issued by the National Economic Council and the Executive Office of the President. Among other recommendations it included the call for greatly improved machine translation technology that would enable automatic, real time and highly accurate language translation between the major languages used around the world. Such development, the document went on to say, would greatly facilitate international commerce and collaboration.
This goes on to show the importance that the current administration places on advanced language technology. But it’s important to take stock of the current state of machine translation, though it has come a long way, it still suffers from a lot of limitations and cannot be depended upon entirely, especially when one is translating critical information whether for immediate use or for the records. It would be great if someone in the White House gave a thought to making the best of existing strengths (human translation providers) along with working on a promising potential opportunity (machine translation).
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