kpozin.net Projects & Musings by Konstantin Pozin

Google has finally added Hebrew to the rather astounding array of languages it can translate to and from English. As with the other languages, they're using their own statistical translation engine, which does a decent job at least with media-level language.

Of course, getting your bilingual corpus from places like Haaretz.com and Haaretz.co.il has its drawbacks. One news article I tried translating from English mentioned the word "home", meaning "residence" in context.

It got translated as דף הבית — "home page."