The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology

Shortly after Internet searching became available to the general public users began to notice the provision of a service enabling documents to be translated from one language to another, including to and from English, using automated technology. Since that time, the number of providers of such services has grown exponentially and now includes Microsoft, Google, Bing and Yahoo inter alia. However, anyone who made use of these services in the early years of the Internet and again more recently might be forgiven for thinking that little development has taken place in the intervening years. In fact the truth is quite...