DARPA program to power instant language translation

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Submission + - DARPA program to power instant language translation (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:40AM

coondoggie writes: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $7.1 million contract to SRI International to start building the latest in a long line of technologies that seek to translate and understand multiple languages. DARPA’s Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program seeks to create technology capable of translating into English multiple foreign languages in all genres including informal speech and text such as occurs in email, messaging and conversational speech..."

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