It seems like something that, on paper, should be very easy to accomplish. Is it just down to the fact that certain things cannot be translated directly from one language to another?
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Our understanding of language depends on culture, context, and awareness of the situation. For example, explain the meaning of “He is an animal.” This phrase has very different meaning depending on whether the speaker is a zookeeper describing an ape, or a woman describing her boyfriend, or a police officer describing a suspect in a violent crime.
For another example, try explaining to someone who isn’t a native English speaker the difference between “butt dial” and “booty call”.
Machine learning is great at looking at billions of examples of translations and figuring out that one word or phrase is frequently translated to another language a certain way, but computers don’t (yet) understand the context or the culture behind that translation.
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