Gradually the translator’s workplace has changed over the last ten years ago. Today computer could be considered an important or even essential tool in translation. However the computer doesn’t substitute traditional tools such as monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, terminologies and encyclopedias on paper or in digital format.

Personal computers have the capacity of processing information easier and quicker. However, the problem is that although we can find a lot of information we need to find the right and reliable one.

Here Corpora plays an important role. Machine translation from corpus linguistics is based in the analysis of real samples with its own translations. Between the different devices that use corpus, there are statistical methods and based in examples.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpora_in_Translation_Studies.