By estherschindler
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Published: Nov 08 2012 / 07:45
Online services do a remarkable job at translating from one language to another (even if they occasionally mess up, yielding “What Will the Future of Machine Translation?”). But linguists and computer scientists are hard at work on a truly Herculean task: Rendering the subtleties of human language into a combination of 0s and 1s to provide translations that are not just more-or-less correct, but idiomatic and flowing. Can they get it done? In your lifetime?
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