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title: How computers translate human language — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-computers-translate-human-language/
date: 2015-10-26
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# How computers translate human language

Is a universal translator possible in real life? We already have many programs that claim to be able to take a word, sentence, or entire book in one language and translate it into almost any other. The reality, however, is a bit more complicated. Ioannis Papachimonas shows how these machine translators work, and explains why they often get a bit mixed up.