From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <threetreepoint AT earthlink.net>
To: hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Machine translation of the Bible, was: heno- v's poly- theismin the torah
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:01:16 -0700
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 ...