translation software

[Christine Tomei]

Devin,
        This is probably a disappointment, but machine translation hasn't really been developed for humanities applications. It has shown excellent results in the areas of defense and business, though. For example, someone in the field in Bosnia can scan in an unknown piece of text on a free standing laptop, in either Cyrillic or Latin letters, and retrieve something like English, with sensitive words and phrases highlighted; or for translating standard legal documents, such as contracts, very quickly to provide a competitive edge for certain international concerns.
        One of the problems is translation itself. I'm still looking for a great human translation of Blok....
        Christine Tomei