Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have been researching on the field of computational lingustics, have been dealing with Civilization II and actually told the computer how to play it.
They improved the actual winning rate of their own AI vs. the FreeCiv AI to 78% by letting it read the manual, and evaluated it on several instances with 1 on 1 matches.
Anyone who is further interested in this topic can get the actual research paper “Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework” here and a presentation here.
And for the people on CFC there are threads in the Civ5 forum here, in Civ4 here and in Civ2 here.
And the most important thing for us: They got that manual from CFC 
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If anyone has links with press coverage of this topic, then feel free to post them 
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Thanks to everyone who has opened threads about this topic and posted the news here .
News links:
- Yahoo News: Computer learns to read manual to improve gameplay, world domination next
- TechEye.net: MIT plants Terminator seeds with Civilization II despot computer
- io9.com: Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization
- slashdot: Computer Learns Language By Playing Games
- ScienceDaily: Computer Learns Language by Playing Games
- PCGamer: PC AI sucks at Civilization, reads manual, starts kicking ass
- EscapistMagazine: MIT Teaches Computer to Read, Conquer the Planet
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