Google Arabic Translator

Cool! Check out Google’s new English-Arabic (and vice-versa) translator, which uses statistical analysis of billions of words of text and previous human translations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s evaluation of its accuracy looks pretty good.

LINK [English to Arabic, text or web page] (via Google Research Blog)

Update: I can’t believe I didn’t think to try it on Al Jazeera’s website:

LINK [Al Jazeera English translation] (thanks Shannon & Mike)