The Guardian has an interesting article out today about a poetry-translating experiment at Google:
And now their creators are eyeing up the poetry market. According to Dmitriy Genzel, a Google software engineer, the internet’s favourite one-stop shop is now working on the machine-translation of not just words, but meter and rhyme.
The story is actually referring to this post, dated October 5th, from Google’s research blog. Translating poetry sounds infinitely more challenging than plain text, and automated plain-text translators are far from perfect. Still, it’ll be interesting to watch the progress of the project.