Machine Translation publishes original research papers on all aspects of MT, including (but not restricted to):

- Statistical MT
- Example-Based MT
- Rule-Based MT
- Hybrid MT
- Spoken Language Translation
- Discriminative MT
- Evaluation in MT
- MT Applications
- Computer-Assisted Translation
- Multilingual Corpus Resources
- Tools for translators
- The role of technology in translator training
- MT and language teaching

In addition, Machine Translation welcomes papers with a multilingual aspect from other areas of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering, including:

- text composition and generation
- information retrieval
- natural language interfaces
- dialogue systems
- message understanding systems
- discourse phenomena
- text mining
- knowledge engineering
- contrastive linguistics
- morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- computer-aided language instruction and learning
- software localization and internationalization

Machine Translation regularly focuses on issues of special interest, features a regular Book Review section, and welcomes other contributions of interest to the wide readership of the journal.