Introduction to thematic section: Challenges to the perfect machine-translation situation
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machine translation, literary translationAbstract
The purpose of the thematic section is to gauge the temperature of MT today by tapping into a selection of critical discussions, thereby shedding light on some challenges to a perfect machine-translation (MT) situation.
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