http://www.translationdirectory.com/article343.htm


"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to
communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and
bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/SciFi/Douglas_Adams.html

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000735.html

The Crystal Reference text messaging dictionary is a comprehensive
resource of the emerging form of language used in SMS messages over mobile
telephones.
The database contains 1112 text messaging references together with some
274 emoticons or "smileys". This is the largest database on this subject
and is available for licensing.
In addition, Crystal Reference has created a comprehensive glossary giving
a detailed description of the major terms used within the mobile industry
. This database contains some 288 entries.
http://www.davidcrystal.com/



http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-22-n83.html - from Esperanto
to Google Babelfish

http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/mt05eval_official_results_release_20050801_v3.html

http://www.babelfish.org/

http://www.slate.com/id/2133922/ - translation is about context;
translator's blues

http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/wtr_16160,300,p1.html
 grammar rules vs. statistics

http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/ - Linguuistic Data Consortium

http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/index.html - transcription from speech
& translation from text

http://www.google.com/unclesam

http://www.google.com/language_tools

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.denison.edu/modlangs/musica/salon/bol_cuba.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DToda%2BUna%2BVida%2B(Osvaldo%2BFarres)%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DEGk%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official

9 useful books about translation history published over the past 30 years, six of them in the past 7 years and four of them since 1992.  (http://www.translationdirectory.com/article343.htm, written in 1996.)  

http://language.home.sprynet.com/lingdex/comptran.htm#totop - How well does computer translation work?

http://language.home.sprynet.com/lingdex/perfmt.htm#totop - Machine translation will never be adequate.

http://www.ericjarvis.co.uk/global.html

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Translation.htm

http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/mt05eval_official_results_release_20050801_v3.html

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/5c651a88cb24938185256acb0055e548?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,bleu