[TChris]

This may not qualify as news, since the original paper was published in 2003, but I didn't find it here, and it's profoundly cool technology.

[radiohead]

Sounds like the beginnings of Star Trek's Universal Translator.

[Ciexyz]

Most interesting! Will this method put translators out of business?

[joesnuffy]

Hey that's great
Now Lee Iococca can understand Snoop Doggy Dogg
when they do more commercials together...

[Blagden Alley]

If as good as they say, this is a bit sooner than I thought. And, it's grammar, not meaning.

That said, it's going to be fun when they get good enuough to start putting court decisions into the machine. It could lead to finding that many decisions are not consistent, and may be distinctly out of phase with each other and higher court decisions.

But that's for next month.

[paltz]

"I have Al Gore Rythm!!"

[Kevin OMalley]

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