Reverse-engineering the universal translator

View of the 'Warp Core,' the engine of the USS Enterprise, in a scene from an episode of the television series 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' entitled 'Force of Nature,' California, November 15, 1993. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Cinema critics keep raving about Arrival, a sci-fi drama focusing on one linguist’s attempts to decipher an alien language. Star Trek recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. As a language geek and a sci-fi fan, I felt it only logical to look into the feasibility of the universal translator, the device used by the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Read More


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