Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Dobbiamo temere una terza guerra mondiale?

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/31/arabic.software.ap/index.html
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To get an Arab's view of U.S. foreign policy, look no further than the Web
site of Al-Jazeera, the popular Qatari satellite TV station whose site is
peppered with photos of slain Afghan and Palestinian children.
But unless you read Arabic, a language that employs its own alphabet,
there's no way to read the text.
Until now, that is.
In October, Cairo-based Sakhr Software released its Arabic-to-English
translation software -- free for the world to use -- on the company's Arabic
language Web portal at Ajeeb.com. The software sits on servers at the
portal, where users can access it. If you type in the URL of an Arabic
language site, the translation engine will roughly convert it English. You
can translate raw text as well.
The company hopes the software provides Americans a window into Arab
thinking, and vice versa. "It's the beginning of a solution to this
misunderstanding problem," said Fahad Al-Sharekh, chief executive of
Ajeeb.com. "This is what's going to bridge the gap between the two
civilizations."
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Qui ci sarebbe da tremare... e se fosse come Babelfish? : )))
Comunque si parla anche del fatto che poco alla volta il software 'impara a
tradurre'
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In Arabic, words that have two dozen meanings can flow in long,
un-punctuated sentences. Machine translations require artificial
intelligence, Al-Sharekh said.
But artificial intelligence takes time to instill. Since the launch of its
service, Ajeeb has employed human translators to tweak the computer's
renditions of popular pages to make them understandable in English.
In doing so, the artificial intelligence engine "learns" from the
corrections.
"Over time the accuracy increases dramatically," Al-Sharekh said.
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Ma quello su cui io punto le speranze per un software in grado di tradurre
testi non letterari sono i computer di nuova concezione:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/12/011225095034.htm
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This year's leap forward for molecular computing may pave the way to a
future filled with tiny but extremely fast and powerful machines that can
translate conversations on the fly or delve deep into your body to diagnose
an illness. If these circuits can be combined into even more complex
architecture, this would "undoubtedly provide computing power to launch
scientific breakthroughs for decades to come," say the Science editors.
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Ok, al momento è solo hype (say the Science editors...), ma ci sono
possibilità di sviluppi futuri:
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Molecular computers with the speed, reliability, and low cost of silicon
computers are still years away, but this year's Breakthrough has researchers
charged up about the future.
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saluti,
Peltio
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testi non letterari sono i computer di nuova concezione:
Piu' che un problema di tecnologia non adeguata, a me sembra che il vero
problema stia nel fatto che nessuno sa come sintetizzare le regole per tradurre
(se esistono)
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I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

But molecular computers can translate into only one language at a time.  I'm
holding out for the quantum computers which will translate into an infinite number
of languages at a time, but somehow give back the one translation that's needed.
Now that's a computer.
Rick


And that will be the day.
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