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"Surprise Language is Hindi.... Good luck!" was all that was needed by USC researchers to design a Hindi-English translation within a month. A mail titled as above was sent by DARPA's TIDES manager for the "Surprise Language" project.

The approach was based on statistical methods to find the most likely answer for a translation. Over a period of time the computer learns to pick the best translation for a given set of words in a "foreign language" (in this case, Hindi). Read more here.