Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers.
Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue – even if a universal communicator a la Star Trek remains a distant dream.
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