From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T04:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Translation Service

On 10/8/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My current need is to get something that you can test visually. The
> > mediocrity of online translations doesn't matter to me, and a basic
> > web service that can be automated would be worth paying for IMO,
> > on a subscription basis or similar.
> >
>
> Any reliable automated translation would be the Holy Grail of killer
> apps. Hasn't happened yet. Human language is far too implicit and
> fuzzy for computers.

Interesting, though.  You can almost understand another language from
more than one translation engine.  Stress on the "almost".

It makes me think of another thing; that being: can you profile an IP address?

Todd