Toon Witkam about (S)MT and DLT

In Hyderabad there is a big center for automatic translation. There, a battery of computers day and night reads through a mass of newspapers, magazines, books, and reports from all over the world. Mostly by internet, sometimes by scanning of paper archives. These indefatigable computers don’t do that just for fun. Their human masters trained them to do this endless reading. Actually the training has been going on for decades and has become so perfect that the well-behaved machines now only support and keep up to date their translation skills by lots of reading, comparing sources in different languages treating the same topic. The ultimate dream of an ambitious translator!