A very substantial feature of statistical machine translation (SMT) systems is the ability to train the system on different bodies of text, and this way customizing it and optimizing it for a certain style and vocabulary. In MT land we call documents...

Last week I attended the MT Summit in Ottawa ( http://summitxii.amtaweb.org/),mostly in the commercial user track. Compared to the previous two AMTA conferences I attended, it was striking to see the attention on MT-aided translation and translator productivity...

My team is responsible for the MT engine that creates the foreign language translations of knowledge base (KB) articles on http://support.microsoft.com . Each KB article has at the bottom a feeedback field allowing the reader to rate the article. I pay...

I am cited in last weekend's issue of the French newspaper “Libération”: http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/weekend/234277.FR.php under the title "Babelweb". Pretty positive about MT in general. Thierry Fontenelle blogged about the article in...