The Best of Both Worlds - or will two mongrels ever make a pedigree

This paper takes a practical look at ways machine translation and translation memory applications can be combined to produce more accurate, "more human" automatic translations. The first part discusses the distinction between the two approaches; in the second half of the paper, the process employed by Hook & Hatton Ltd for combining MT and TM is discussed in detail. The paper focuses on documentation handled in a professional translation environment. It is difficult to make the decisions required in the workflow without a sound knowledge of the language pairs involved. For this reason, we will not be looking at the so-called "web translation scene" which is likely to account for a growing share of the MT market over the coming years.