Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Discusses the Possible Existence of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel Fish in Reality

29 May 2018 (Tuesday)

25 May 2018 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses the possible existence of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel fish in reality, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“While a translator on par with Douglas Adams’ fictitious fish doesn’t exist yet, auto-translation systems have made great strides, even coming to the rescue of endangered languages”

Please click on the following link for the complete article:

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2147620/when-ai-catches-fiction-hitchhikers-guide-galaxys-babel-fish

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