text: Machine translation , sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT , also called computer-aided translation , machine-aided human translation MAHT and interactive translation , 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 .
simplified: Machine translation , sometimes referred to by the acronym MT , is part of computational linguistics . It looks at the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another .