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Kielikone Machine Translation Technology and Its Perspective on the Economics of Mt

This paper describes the machine translation technology of Kielikone Ltd. and gives an outline of TranSmart, a Finnish-English MT system which is a commercial application of that base technology. We argue that MT is fundamentally empirical research. Product development is a slow and strenuous process and MT systems will remain incomplete not only vis-a-vis human translations but also with respect to the system’s own potential translation quality. An evaluation method is described which measures the progress in MT development. This method can also be used for system and technology evaluation. This paper ends with the claim that the real contribution of MT will be seen in a longer run in applications that do not compete with human translations but in which MT is the only choice.