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From Babel to Star Trek: The Quest for Translation

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Conversing with Klingons may be a piece of cake in the Star Trek universe, but here on earth, language translation apps still have a long way to go. Two Silicon Valley teams, at Google and SRI International, are making good progress, but will they ever get close to the holy grail: translations as accurate and reliable as multilingual humans?

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