Automatic Translation, why not?
Caligula: What is their background? If they have none as you say, it is going to be unlikely.You mentioned reading the stanford course, there are also video lectures:http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=63480b48-8...If they decide to proceed, two good NLP books:1.Speech and Language Processing2.Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing