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December 12, 2004
Tim Oren: Machine Translation & the Global Blogosphere

(This post is a more formal version, with links, of my rant about machine translation (MT) at the Global Voices session at the Harvard Berkman conference. There's an earlier backgrounder on the marketplace on my home blog, Due Diligence, and also see this general background at Wikipedia.)

An obviously valuable addition to the global blogosphere would be automatic language translation. The good news is that more non-English tools like Spirit of America's Arabic blogging tool are popping up, enabling those who don't speak English to join the blogosphere. One downside is the potential for creating language islands, isolating those without bilingual skills.

So, what are the prospects for the blogosphere getting access to state of the art machine translation (MT) technology on reasonable (preferably free) terms? Better than you might think.

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