d-lib has an article on language-translation by machine:

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/smith/03smith.html

*** they also have an article on automatic "document recognition", the ability to have a computer ascertain the underlying structure of a document, what i've been talking about here for many years, which my detractors here have repeatedly termed as "impossible":

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/choudhury/03choudhury.html

in time, people will laugh at how ridiculously stupid my detractors were. -bowerbird