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You say Sea of Japan. I say East Sea.

October 22, 2014 by John Yunker

Who said the life of a map maker isn’t interesting? Every other day it seems there is another disputed territory, which usually means another disputed name. I’ve already mentioned the …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

Gabble On: Using machine translation to learn a language

July 5, 2012 by John Yunker

Ethan Shen, who has become quite an expert on the various machine translation (MT) engines, has launched a nifty web service designed to help you improve your language skills: Gabble …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

Looking for a translation icon?

September 12, 2012June 6, 2012 by John Yunker

If you haven’t visited the Noun Project yet, take a moment and drop by. It’s a great initiative to provide open source icons. All you have to do is provide …

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Categories Global navigation, Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation

You Say Falkland Islands. I Say Islas Malvinas.

March 31, 2013March 8, 2012 by John Yunker

Remember the Falklands War? I do and, yes, this does make me feel a little old. For those of you who don’t remember, the war was fought over a group …

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Categories Google, Maps, Microsoft

Think your translator is cutting corners? Try the machine translation detector…

June 19, 2013January 27, 2011 by John Yunker

Lior Libman of One Hour Translation has released a web tool that you can use to quickly determine if text was translated by one of the three major machine translation …

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Categories Apple, Machine Translation, Translation, Vendors

Google, Bing and Babelfish: What’s the best translation engine?

May 17, 2010 by John Yunker

Two months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish Ethan Shen …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft

Bing cuts the clicks

July 12, 2009 by John Yunker

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt. Since Bing launched I’ve been thinking a lot about search engines and how I use them. I’ve …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

Bing Beats Google in Insta-translation

June 15, 2009 by John Yunker

Bing recently added a nifty new translation feature — one that is so simple and in many ways so obvious that I can’t help wondering why Google never got around …

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Categories Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation

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