Reasons for the increasing use of Machine translation followed by post-editing

This article discusses the causes which, in the author's opinion, have led to an increase of the adoption of machine translation (MT) to produce drafts for post-editing. There are four main causes for this: improvement of MT techniques, increased availability of resources such as software and data, a change in users' expectation about MT, i.e. what can and cannot be expected from an MT system, and better ways of integrating MT systems in compute-aided translation tools.