The real-world applications of machine translation
Machine translation (MT) is currently being employed in areas like customer support, e-commerce, healthcare, education, government resources, instruction manuals and social media in order to enable multilingual communication in a cost-effective way. While it’s been around for decades, it’s only in recent years that individuals and organizations have started relying on it for their everyday needs. So much so that, according to
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