Automatic translators have become powerful tools for communication across dozens of the world's major languages. But accessing one of the other 6,800 tongues spoken on Earth has continued to require ...

Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French to Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek to Esperanto? Considerably harder. But sign language is a ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

Sign language is used by millions of people around the world, but unlike Spanish, Mandarin or even Latin, there’s no automatic translation available for those who can’t use it. SLAIT claims the first ...

I work at a large international organization translating speeches from French, Spanish, and Russian. When a rumor began spreading in my office that our jobs were to be “supplemented” by computer ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

With more language translation applications becoming available on mobile phones, business travelers can now rely on their handsets instead of translation guides when they visit a foreign country, said ...

The problem of a total absence of parallel data is present for a large number of language pairs and can severely detriment the quality of machine translation. We describe a language-independent method ...