http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/default.aspxNews and info about Machine Translation at Microsoften-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2009/09/05/optimizing-a-statistical-mt-system-using-shared-data.aspxSat, 05 Sep 2009 17:28:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9891792Chris Wendt0http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/comments/9891792.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9891792A 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...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2009/09/05/optimizing-a-statistical-mt-system-using-shared-data.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9891792" width="1" height="1">Machine TranslationSMTMTTranslation MemoryTAUS Data Associationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2009/09/05/notes-from-the-mt-summit-in-ottawa.aspxSat, 05 Sep 2009 16:41:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9891777Chris Wendt0http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/comments/9891777.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9891777Last 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,...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2009/09/05/notes-from-the-mt-summit-in-ottawa.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9891777" width="1" height="1">Machine Translationconferenceshttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2007/02/18/microsoft-knowledge-base.aspxMon, 19 Feb 2007 10:54:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1712817Chris Wendt1http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/comments/1712817.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1712817<P>My team is responsible for the MT engine that creates the foreign language translations of knowledge base (KB) articles on <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/" mce_href="http://support.microsoft.com/">http://support.microsoft.com</A>. Each KB article has at&nbsp;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.</P> <P>Feel free to let me know right here of any significant issues or recurring problems you see with the KB translation.</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1712817" width="1" height="1">KBhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/archive/2007/02/18/citation-in-the-french-press.aspxMon, 19 Feb 2007 10:30:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1712708Chris Wendt0http://blogs.msdn.com/christw/comments/1712708.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/christw/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1712708<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I am cited in last weekend's issue of the French newspaper “Libération”: <A href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/weekend/234277.FR.php" mce_href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/weekend/234277.FR.php">http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/weekend/234277.FR.php</A> under the title "Babelweb". Pretty positive about MT in general. </P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thierry Fontenelle blogged about the article in his post&nbsp; <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/correcteurorthographiqueoffice/">http://blogs.msdn.com/correcteurorthographiqueoffice/</A>. </SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1712708" width="1" height="1">Press