They're at it again

From Slashdot:

Google gave journalists a glimpse of its next generation machine translation system at a May 19th Google Factory Tour.

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The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. This corpus is some 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages.

Pretty cool.