Published April 29, 2019 | Version v1
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THE FINE LINE BETWEEN CRYPTOLOGY AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

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Today, most of us write in manners that we cannot peruse or ever would like to fathom; of course, composting is transposed into indescribable, encoded passages of "secure" data. However, on this research paper, I would like to touch upon the history of machine translation, indicating how its sources are to be found in the development of cryptanalysis or code cracking. Everything is starting with the letter of theologian, philosopher, and mathematician Marin Mersenne and René Descartes about creating an artificial universal language for making translation among the languages. Then these histories discover their epitome in Warren Weaver’s persuasive memorandum. In this memorandum, Weaver built up a “cryptographic and translation” thought, drawing on his insight into the Second World War code cracking to dispatch the cutting edge field of machine translation. Anxious to discover new uses for the decryption strategies created amid WWII to decipher the Enigma code and Weaver suggested that cryptographic procedures be connected to the errand of translation.

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