Out of Africa, into Grammatical English
Most world languages don't have the abundant
resources of texts in electronic form that computer
scientists have used to create the now widely-used
machine translation systems that turn (for example)
English into Chinese. Now, Kevin Knight of ISI, who
helped pioneer these earlier systems, is working as
part of a multi-university team in a five-year effort
to find less statistical, more semantic points of
attack on 'low-density' languages, starting with
some spoken in Africa.
