Google Translate is chasing the holy grail of machine learning, but there's a long way to go before accurate translation is a reality Were you to run perhaps the most famous line in literature, the ...

Three years of work by a large interdisciplinary team at the University of Southern California has created a rudimentary but working two-way voice translation system. Three years of work by a large ...

In modern times where machine translation including Google Translate has spread, it is easier to communicate with people with different native languages than before. We have uploaded a lot of ...

IN “STAR TREK” it was a hand-held Universal Translator; in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” it was the Babel Fish popped conveniently into the ear. In science fiction, the meeting of distant ...

The ease with which we can now translate web pages between different languages has surprising origins in the power struggles between Russia and the US. There are times when I feel as if I’m truly ...

Relying on online translation tools can be a risky business, especially if you expect too much of it. For the time being, might translation be something best left to the humans? Earlier this month the ...

Have you ever been in a situation where knowing another language would have come in handy? I remember standing on the platform at Tokyo Station watching my train to Nagano — the last train of the day ...

In the 23rd century, people will use a gizmo that looks suspiciously like a flashlight to communicate with alien species. That’s in the world of “Star Trek.” In the here and now, a small Marina del ...

This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive combination of traditional close reading and ‘distant’ ...