There are some research projects (in rather early stages) that develop SMT techniques for translation to languages without big parallel corpora (essentially by

There are some research projects (in rather early stages) that develop SMT techniques for translation to languages without big parallel corpora (essentially by bootstrapping such corpora, assisted by active learning). This could be of particular importance to keep smaller languages from disappearing, otherwise less and less works in that language will be available (yes, I'm aware that there are many people who consider language death a good thing).