UC Berkeley scientists and students looked at current artificial intelligence translation systems and found that, though flawed, they have become good enough for researchers to broadly translate their ...

In context: Machine translation technology has come a long way since its inception. Whereas the likes of Google Translate were once rough, unreliable, and only useful for the most basic translations, ...

The global march of English as communication medium of choice for business, education and entertainment could be brought to a juddering halt if the predictions of a language expert come to pass.

Sign-Speak aims to use machine learning to make communicating through sign language easier. Cofounder Nikolas Kelly's own challenges communicating while deaf prompted the idea. The software translates ...

Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own ...

In 1886, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans came across an ancient stone bearing a curious set of inscriptions in an unknown language. The stone came from the Mediterranean island of Crete, and ...