The Challenge of Open Source MT
This is the raw, first draft, and slightly longer rambling version of a post already published on SDL.COM . MT is considered one of the most difficult problems in the general AI and machine learning field. In the field of artificial intelligence , the most difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete problems , implying that the difficulty of these computational problems is equivalent to that of solving the central artificial intelligence problem— that is, making computers as intelligent as people. It is no surprise that humankind has been working on this problem for almost 70 years now, and is still quite some distance from having solved this problem. “To translate accurately, a machine must be able to understand the text. It must be able to follow the author's argument, so it must have some ability to reason. It must have extensive world knowledge so that it knows what is being discussed — it must at least be familiar with all the same commonsense facts that the average...