The MT-05 evaluation consisted of two tasks. Each task required performing translation from a given source language into the target language. The source languages were Arabic and Chinese, and the target language was English.
And this is probably just a little fraction of their research. Same would probably go for Microsoft Research...
There is also a story about how Socrates tryed to prove that geometry is hard-wired into humans. He did that by questioning some uneducated slave about geometry to extract some knowledge out of him.
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That's a very limited look at what Google is doing... like their machine translation group scored first at NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Official Results.
And this is probably just a little fraction of their research. Same would probably go for Microsoft Research...
There is also a story about how Socrates tryed to prove that geometry is hard-wired into humans. He did that by questioning some uneducated slave about geometry to extract some knowledge out of him.