Machine translation in its present form therefore focuses on a number of very practical tasks. Perhaps the most common current use of machine translation is for information access. We might want to translate some instructions on the web, information access perhaps the recipe for a favorite dish, or the steps for putting together some furniture. Or we might want to read an article in a newspaper, or get information from an online resource like Wikipedia or a government webpage in a foreign language. MT for information access is probably one of the most common uses of NLP technology, and Google Translate alone (shown above) translates hundreds of billions of words a day between over 100 languages.