Recent advances in computerized language translation would seem to offer a reasonable possibility of making ‘acceptable’ (or ‘usable’) translations of the entire PL and PG corpora into any modern language very quickly.

I am going to run this idea by some computer scientists, but also I wanted to mention it here to solicit opinions, ideas, or possible suggestions.

How does such an idea strike the group members?

Is anyone aware of existing plans to do this?

Are any members academically affiliated and potentially interested in approaching computer science departments at their universities with an aim of possible collaboration with them?

John Uebersax

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