While it's true that more accurate translation is more computationally expensive, and we do have good knowledge of the structures and algorithms for machine tra

While it's true that more accurate translation is more computationally expensive, and we do have good knowledge of the structures and algorithms for machine translation, it's far from being a solved problem, mostly because it requires a relevant multilingual corpus for training (see [1]) That's also why translation performance varies greatly depending on which kind of prose you are translating (yes, there are attempts to translate poetry as well, see [2]). There is a huge amount of potential information on the web but it's rarely well curated and the next big problem is how to extract it. [1] See http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/how-google-translate-works-2353594.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea... [2] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/poetic-machine-translation.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/poetic-machine-tr...