Google Translation

In the official announcement on the Google Blog, Associate Product Manager Intern Rita Chen recognizes that machine translation still has a long way to go. However, Im happy to report that there have been some improvements, at least since Google Reader got its translation feature.

I used a bilingual blog to test GRs translator. I took the translated posts to compare the translation quality:

Obviously, there is still a long way to go to get machine translation, but the last nine months have shown at least a little improvement in the automatic translation.

But heres the real question: can you understand this translation?

On Friday the paper would not normally go up in the afternoon because I work different hours. People on the bus tends to be younger, most students who go to the campus of the University of Washington. While he was on the bus I thought about doing this drawing bad luck that Halloween has fallen on a Friday this year. I missed the trick or treating with my kids. My consolation is that at home we seem to be on Halloween from a month ago, when my child who is 3 years old, began to get all their costumes all hours of the day: bee, dragon and tiger, which is the that was the end. My child, who is 5 years old, disguised himself as a Transformer, which is called Optimus Prime. (Gabriel Campanarios original English version)

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