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In the following lines I'm going to describe some concepts which are related to automatic translation:

• Machine Translation (MT): it is "a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. At its basic level, MT performs simple substitution of words in one natural language for words in another. Using corpus techniques, more complex translations may be attempted, allowing for better handling of differences in linguistic typology, phrase recognition, and translation of idioms, as well as the isolation of anomalies."
• Machine Aided Human Translation ( MAHT): "The human translator controls the translation process. The translation is done mostly by himself, but he can ask the machine for help if needed. The machine's part is to translate single words or word groups (mostly dictionary search), to make suggestions e.g. for synomyms or to translate a special part of the text, if the translator demands it. The human intervention takes place before and during the translation process."
• Multilingual Content Management (MCM): "Un CMS es un sistema de gestión de contenidos, Content Management System." The system " se trata generalmente de un conjunto de herramientas, apoyado habitualmente por una base de datos, y que consisten en una serie de programas en un servidor web, y, opcionalmente, una serie de programas cliente que te permitan acceder fácilmente a esos programas en el servidor."

So, these three are different because of the different technique used. Finally, I think the Translation Technology is a computer technology which translates texts. This concept refers to all the translation systems mentioned before.    

According to the FEMTI (Framework for Machine Translation Evaluation in ISLE) report, "Characteristics of the translation task refers to the information flow intended for the output, from the point of view of the agent (human or otherwise) who receives the translation". These are the main characteristics of the translation task:

• Assimilation: the aim of the assimilation task is to control the "relatively" big volume of texts "produced by people outside the organization, in (usually) several languages".  Here, document routing or sorting, information extraction or summarization and search are included.
• Dissemination: its objective is to  "deliver to others a translation of documents produced inside the organization". Here, we can't forget about the  internal or in-house dissemination (routine and experimental) and the external dissemination - publication (single client and multi-client).
• Communication: the communication's task main objective is to "support multi-turn dialogues between people who speak different languages". We have  synchronous and asynchronous communication.

There are other characteristics which can be read in the previous link.