Promotional literature for computer-based language translation programs promises quick and comprehensible translations between English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Native and near native ...

In a way, it's shocking that machine translation--the computer-aided translation of human languages--hasn't been perfected yet. Philosophers and mathematicians have been proposing its possibility ...

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...