Most people immediately recognize machine translation as being a type of language technology.
However, few people who are knowledgeable about the field of translation in general and about machine translation in particular feel that it will ever play more than a marginal role in the translation of natural languages. Such tools range from the simplest glossary management database tools all the way to translation memory tools. Click here for a list of books about these tools . Click here for links to companies involved in language technology , or click here for an academic site with similar interests . Click here to return to Thomas Hedden's home page .