But there is one feature of note: it does provide a basic translation of a foreign webpage using Babelfish, from one button on the toolbar.

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In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation.

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"It's a translation of his kind of lifestyle, " says Haw.

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The committee said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) had not had a sufficient understanding of the complexities of court interpreting and translation work before it decided to put the services out to tender.

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For example, it will soon be able to handle a translation of a plaque at a historical site, something which would be much harder to do using just a dictionary.

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Furthermore, accuracy is always a nagging and unavoidable topic of discussion when it comes to Internet translation services.

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The biggest difference, says Dimitrios Sabatakakis, chief executive of Systran, is that the Internet makes it much easier to create a customised version of a machine-translation system.

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It encompasses the whole messy breadth of humanity, and so needs a decent translation to bring this about.

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The Lake House, based on a Korean picture and directed by an Argentinean, features supporting players with a variety of intriguing accents, and it's tempting to say that something's getting lost in translation, except that we are, after all, in the Twilight Zone here, and all those different influences are more interesting than the leads are.

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