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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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April 30, 2006

Machine Translation Developments: Yahoo! and Google

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Posted by John Yunker

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Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Babel Fish. You may have used it on the AltaVista site and this is basically the same thing, with some additional bells and whistles. Under the hood is Systran technology.

But the bigger news is that Google has gone beta on its statistical MT engine for Arabic <> English translation. You can give it a test drive here.

This is going to get exciting!

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