Last summer Wayne Bourland, Director of Global localization at Dell, spoke about Machine Translation at the LocWorld Conference in Barcelona. He raised some very interesting points, which were later echoed in an article in MultiLingual (July-August 2011). The central idea was that MT was failing to gain traction for 3 reasons: clients not knowing how to buy it, Providers not knowing how to sell it, and Translators being reluctant to support it.![]()
