The lack of high-quality bilingual corpora is hardly the primary obstacle to considering automatic translation a solved problem. Even for language pairs for whi

The lack of high-quality bilingual corpora is hardly the primary obstacle to considering automatic translation a solved problem. Even for language pairs for which plenty of "bitext" exists, the current approaches to machine translation still face major challenges with regards to ambiguities, idioms, finely nuances imagery and other semantic subtleties, all of which pose hard, but not insurmountable challenges to an expert human translator.