The ambiguity of Latin and its consequences for machine translation
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We describe how the ambiguity of Latin words renders the machine translation of Latin texts into English much harder than that of the derived west-European languages. Some possible solutions are outlined, and have been tested on the commercial translator ‘Blitz Latin’.
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