News and info about Machine Translation at Microsoft
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We released the product of the last months of hard labor: http://translator.live.com. The site uses Microsoft Research's own MT engine for English --> several languages, for software-related sites. Microsoft Research's MT engine is a statistical MT system trained on Microsoft's own translated materials from many years of human translation. We use a similarity score to guess what web sites will do well with our engine, and we use Systran for everything else. Our user experience is unique, which has luckily been noted in the reviews and in the blogs. The compatibility with sites and browsers isn't quite up where we'd like to be, that's one reason why the site is still labeled a beta. For details please see the team blog at the MSDN Translation blog.
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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 close attention to this feedback to determine the usefulness of the MT engine for a task like understanding a technical document.
Feel free to let me know right here of any significant issues or recurring problems you see with the KB translation.
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