Machine Translation and CAT Tools

There are basically two kinds of computer-based translations, they have completely different goals and are consequently employed in two very different ways. There is a significant difference between the two; on the one hand, the translation which has been done using CAT tools will be finished off by a human translator whose skills finally produce a translation which is appropriate, relevant and accurate in all respects; while, on the other hand, Machine translation can, as yet, only be described as very inadequate.