Machine Translation – End of Road for Human Translators?

With the increasing popularity of online machine translations, one question that is increasingly being asked is this: Will there be a time when human translators become obsolete? Having worked as a translator for a few years, I have had some experience using online machine translations. Let me answer this question with a confident NO! I will explain why below. Firstly, the key reason why machine translations work badly is because they do not understand ‘context’. While humans intuitively understand what this means, ‘context’ is a difficult word to explain properly. Teaching it to a...