I agree to everyone saying that it is not perfect.
In fact, it is quite far from being perfect, but as the machine translation system works with parallel bilingual data, from which it learns to compare and structure a language pair, the cleaner (correct accurate, grammatical) data we supply, the better it becomes.
And anyway, you would still use post-editing for the translation where it is required, as for example in technical documents, it’s safer to have humans review the content.
Because it’s free it’s not satisfactory, but you would definitely find companies in the field that offer this Product to INTEL,DELL, or THE GOVERNMENTS. (see eg. Language Weaver, Systran)

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Sure, if you compare it with other translaters and automatic article re-writers, you’ll find out that it’s probably the best one. But still, it’s far from perfect.

Anyway, if they keep working on it, it might become a very useful tool.

Cheers,
Johnny
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Presumably the translation is handled by the same engine as the actual Google Translate website. I recently blogged about this kind of machine translation at “Making Sense” (worldaccent.com/blog) and, more importantly, its dangers. It can be great for getting the gist of something but, as you say, is also often way off beam. And forcing yourself to write English in simple “Subject Verb Object” sentences seems to lack panache.

If a user runs your website through Google translate, they know its at their own risk. If you have “provided” a translation, aren’t you more responsible for what it says? As Bing Translator warns you every time you use it: “Automatic translation can help you understand the gist of the translated text but is no substitute for a professional human translator.”

And, unless you speak the target language, how do you know if your website is being rendered in perfect prose or as unintelligible gibberish? If you care about what “you” are saying in translation, you’re still best off sticking to a human translator.
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I do understand that real life sentences are pretty hard to translate automatically. But, I have found good result by using the Google text translate tool from single verb simple sentences.

Other good ones are: Yahoo Babelfish (It amazed a Japanese coleague of mine), WorldLingo (I personally like it), Applied Language Traslation Tool, and 1-800-Translate Tool. Google them.

Asif Anwar.

You end up with gibberish in a lot of cases. I would strongly advise people NOT to use this.

Thanks for sharing!
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