ABSTRACT
Human languages have evolved over a significant period of time and although initially in our journey as a species it may have been sufficient to know the local language (“mother tongue”) and perhaps the language of neighboring peoples, current trends dictate that we are able to process material produced in many languages. The Web and global access allows for access of content; however, comprehending the content requires a multilingual person or for the majority of people, an automated way of rendering the content into the user’s preferred language is required. Machine Translation (MT) technology fulfills this requirement. Statistical techniques (Brown et al., 1993) for MT are now pervasive.
