Instruction: Define machine translation and mention some challenges associated with it.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's understanding of an NLP application that involves automatically translating text from one language to another.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Machine translation is the task of automatically converting text from one language into another while preserving meaning, tone, and where possible the appropriate level of fluency and formality....