The Shallowness of Google Translate (by Douglas Hofstadter)
Superb reminder of the difficulty of true NLP. Google Translate is an amazing and very useful tool, but machines have a long way to go before they really understand language.<p>Example sentence used by article:<p>&gt; In their house, everything comes in pairs. There’s his car and her car, his towels and her towels, and his library and hers