His examples are drawn from a wide array of sources: Albanian, ancient Hebrew, film dubbing and graphic novels, legal documents (huge amounts of translation required) and the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

ECONOMIST: Shape-shifting

Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon).

FORBES: Google Docs Adds Translation Feature

The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.

CNN: Bonjour Google! Gmail adds auto-translation

By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be.

CNN: Bonjour Google! Gmail adds auto-translation