Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 29/07/2005 19:01, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

> On 7/29/05 9:54 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > After all, researchers have been working on machine translation between
> > major world languages for many decades, and the best results that they
> > can come up with are appalling.
> >    
>
> The feds dumped gigabucks into this during the cold war. Some of the
> byproducts of this hopeless project were useful, e.g., frame theory,
> semantic networks ...
>
>  
The European Union is still dumping gigaeuros into it. I'm sure there 
will be useful byproducts of this as well, but I don't expect that to 
include high quality translation - although the results between the core 
European languages might be just about understandable. But then these 
languages, and I exclude Finnish, Saami, Hungarian, Maltese and Basque, 
are reasonably closely related and have had a lot of mutual interaction 
over the centuries. Biblical Hebrew is much less close to modern 
languages, with obvious exceptions like modern Hebrew, Arabic and Maltese.

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Peter Kirk
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