Language translation is a notoriously difficult task for humans, let alone computers. But in trying to solve that problem Google has stumbled across a clever trick, that involves treating them like ...

Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google Translate will know that they provide useful ...

PARIS — Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering ...

AN excellent introduction to the subject of vector analysis is provided by this book. It is admirably clear, and a natural temptation to develop so fertile a theory in excessive detail and to multiply ...