Teaching commercial MT to translators

This paper presents the experiment that was led at the University Paris 7 to teach machine translation to translation students. Linking machine translation with translation-training in order to help students acquire the linguistic and technical skills increasingly required on the translation market has become part of a number of translation syllabuses in the last few years. Although, MT knowledge is more and more required for professional translators, most of them are still skeptical, not to say hostile to MT. Our objective here is then twofold: showing translation trainees why and how MT can be used for professional purposes, from the text to be translated to the final result.