Ask HN: Automatic Translation, why not?
I'm currently working in a project which was the creation of a series of tools to improve language learning in an original way. I've recently incorpored in the project which was being executed a while ago.<p>The thing is, some of the people here are convinced that we could make a translator better than any of the translators in the market(google, babylon, etc...).<p>In my opinion the group doesn't have possibilities of succeding in the topic because of the lack of experience in the field and of course, because it's a really hard problem.<p>I would like to find material to show them that we're going to lose time and money trying to make something we can't. The approach to the problem is the sentence analysis, identify every element of the sentence being aware of the context in order to choose the correct tranlation of a word.<p>I've been reading the Stanford course of NLP but it doesn't especify why the approach mentioned above is discarded.