Machine translation, in simple terms, refers to the translation of text from one language to another using a computer. It is a branch of computer linguistics that has now been around for several years. Currently, in the US, translation is a USD 40 billion industry, and it is also growing at a fast pace in Europe and Asia. There is a great social, governmental, economic, and commercial need for translation, and it is used extensively by companies such as Google, Facebook, eBay, and others, in their applications. Google's neural translation system in particular is one of the most advanced translation systems out there, capable of performing translation of multiple languages with just one model.
Early machine translation systems started with the translation of mere words and phrases in a text into a pertinent substitute in the desired target language...