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Egads, where to start???? I would NEVER use only Machine Translation to
handle our docs. For getting the gist of a document -- certainly, but
that's about it.
I had more written, but Geoff and Diane scooped me with the same ideas
(do a test and show how poor it is).
However, note the last paragraph below: If the U.S. government, with
their billions of $$ of resources, can only come up with a MT that
translates SIMPLE commands, how well could one expect it to handle
complex instructions for mechanical equipment (or whatever you provide?)
Oh, one more thing -- www.engrish.com might provide you with some fine
examples of what I suspect are "lost in machine translations."
Tech Solutions to Iraqi-U.S. Language Barrier. Xeni Jardin's Xeni Tech
report for NPR's Day to Day (November 13, 2006: audio available). "Part
of the daily struggle for soldiers and Marines in Iraq is communicating
with civilians and suspected insurgents. Few military personnel have
enough fluency with Iraqi Arabic to be easily understood, and field
translators are in short supply. But technology may help close that
communications gap. A hand-held voice translator device developed by
Integrated Wave Technologies, already in use in other parts of the
world, converts simple English commands into Iraqi Arabic or 15 other
languages."
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