This is a group for the practical study of the theory, method, and limitations of machine translation or computer-assisted translation. Relevant topics include the merits of current machine translation programs, report of new developments in machine translation theory, sharing of resources related to machine translation, queries regarding the algorithms of machine translation, debate on the merits of rule-based and statistical approaches, and announcement of new projects in machine translation. All source and target langauges are legitimate subjects of discussion, including popular languages such as English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic as well as dead languages such as Latin or classical Greek. Also on-topic are artificial languages like Esperanto and controlled languages like PACE. Since is is my belief that true machine translation will require artificial intelligence, I would like to include this topic as well. Neophytes, non-programmers, and non-bilingual people as well as researchers and translators are invited to join and participate.
I would like collect terms and word lists in any languages so if yo have them please upload and share. I have put a few of mine in the files section already, help yourself.

Please do not post SPAM messages or off topic items. Conference announcements are OK as well as on topic research papers and reports of other peoples research.

If you know of any good translation software out there, let me know and I will post it on this list.

If anyone has suggestions as to what this group should be please let me know.