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That is a massive project. Have you looked at Google Translate? Hundreds of computer scientists have worked on it for decades and it still is not very good.

That is a massive project. Have you looked at Google Translate? Hundreds of computer scientists have worked on it for decades and it still is not very good. But if you are motivated .... My personal preference would be to use Python (it's available on Windows, Mac and Linux). There is a very nice natural language toolkit available for Python which will help you with parsing the input language. During the early stages you want to experiment with algorithms more than being worried about speed, optimization can come later.

radicalbyte 15y ago
A large proportion of the academic Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics community use Python, so it really is the natural choice for a project in those fields. As for how long it will take? You can have something capable of translating a couple of hundred words up and running in hours. To do it properly (at a quality approaching that of even a bad human translator) will take a lifetime.