Machine translation (MT) is "A technology that translates text from one human language to another, using terminology glossaries and advanced grammatical, syntactic and semantic analysis techniques." (MultiLingual)
It is also described as "is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. At its basic level, MT performs simple substitution of words in one natural language for words in another. Using corpus techniques, more complex translations may be attempted, allowing for better handling of differences in linguistic typology, phrase recognition, and translation of idioms, as well as the isolation of anomalies." (Wikipedia)
"MT" for Africa Computer translators & African languages http://www.bisharat.net/Trans/
The Language Weaver company has recently been doing some work on Arabic, Hausa, and Somali.
[more info here]
MultiLingual. 2007. "Glossary." 2007 Resource Directory. http://www.multilingual.com/resourceDirectory/
Wikipedia, "Machine translation," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation
