North-Holland Publishing Company / © ASLIB, 1982 TYPES OF TRANSLATION AND TEXT FORMS IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT)

Human translation consists of a number of separate steps which begin with the identification of the text type, the purpose and intention of the text, the subject area, etc. As there are types of texts there are also types of translation, which do not necessarily match directly. Since the human and machine translation processes differ so must the criteria which determine translatability. What criteria are relevant for MT and can they be derived from observations of the human effort