Error types of machine translation of popular science text

This paper summarizes and categorizes the common error types of machine translation of popular science text, which includes mistranslation of technical terms, omission, over-translation, mistranslation of clauses, mistranslation of attributive sequences, and mistranslation caused by rigidly converting English special sentence structures. The categorization of these common errors in machine translation might be helpful as a reference for machine translation program improvement.