According to the state of today's technology, a machine translation software for entire texts cannot understand contents or interpret them. They lack common-sense information for which they depend on their users. The three steps of a machine translation Classically, machine translations are made in three steps. In this step, source documents are prepared for the machine translation process. Complicated phrase constructions have to be simplified and cleared.
Ambiguous words are to be eliminated and to be replaced by unambiguous ones.
Furthermore, spelling and punctuation are checked thoroughly, because the sole twisting of two letters can distort the result. Moreover, the text becomes aligned as far as its terminology is concerned. By a terminological classification, we can let the software know to which technical field or special subject the text belongs and which terminology is mainly used. In practice, this is done by the use of external subject dictionaries or user dictionaries. Now, the text is being translated automatically by the computer.