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Machine Translation of arbitrary input is difficult,but the output quality can be improved significantlyif writers create documents with MT in mind. Thisarticle deals with ``MTranslatability'' – translatabilityof texts by MT systems. It identifies characteristics oftext that decrease MTranslatability and suggests waysto improve them. It also illustrates the effect of writingfor MTranslatability by showing before-and-after picturesof output from various commercially available MT systems,and gives an overview of tools that help identify and correctthe problems.

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Bernth, A., Gdaniec, C. MTranslatability. Machine Translation 16, 175–218 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019867030786

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