[sc00ter]

the answer to NLP might actually be to simply store and access a terabytes-sized data structure of vocabulary and phrases.

Isn't that effectively what google translate is doing? And it's results are... varied.

[scott_karana]

I get the impression that Google Translate is strictly doing it in a Bayesian sense. For example, the recent "he praised the iPad" debacle. [1][2]

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538 [2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/google-now-and-google-trans...