http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/12/04/4darpa.html


"DARPA launches project that aims to create real-time translation software"


"GALE's goal is to deliver by 2010 software that can almost instantly translate Arabic and Mandarin Chinese with 90 percent to 95 percent accuracy."

"IBM Corp., backed by a $6 billion annual research budget; SRI International, a $300 million, nonprofit research organization based in Silicon Valley; and BBN Technologies Inc., a $200 million research contractor headquartered in Cambridge."