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Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.

Microsoft uses Systran to produce most of the translations, but also offers an option to translate computer-related texts using a machine translation system developed in-house. Microsoft’s translation technology has been used to translate technical materials, including MSDN Library.

“Recent research in Machine Translation (MT) has focused on data-driven systems. Such systems are self-customizing in the sense that they can learn the translations of terminology and even stylistic phrasing from already translated materials. Microsoft Research MT (MSR-MT) system is such a data-driven system, and it has been customized to translate Microsoft technical materials through the automatic processing of hundreds of thousands of sentences from Microsoft product documentation and support articles, together with their corresponding translations.”

Microsoft intends to integrate this service into Live Search and provide a feature already available in other search engines for a long time. Windows Live Translator’s presentation is extremely interesting: the default view shows the original page and the translation side by side in two vertical frames. If you hover over a sentence in one of the pages, the sentence is highlighted in both pages. If you scroll in one of the pages, the other page performs the same action. This is an interesting approach especially for those who speak both languages fairly well or want to learn a new language. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to read a page that requires to scroll horizontally.

Google also has a translation service powered by Systran. The translations are identical to the ones returned by Babel Fish, but they’re different from Windows Live’s translations, so Microsoft might use an updated version of Systran’s software.

Google developed a machine translation system that’s available to the public for only three languages: Arabic, Chinese and Russian. To expand these systems to other languages, it’s important to have a lot of parallel texts. “Rather than argue about whether this algorithm is better than that algorithm, all you have to do is get ten times more training data. And now all of a sudden, the worst algorithm is performing better than the best algorithm on less training data,” explained Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google.

While machine translation is not yet a replacement for human translation in most cases, it’s a great way to get the approximate gist of a text in a foreign language. One of the most important problems is that machine translation doesn’t always produce coherent phrases and doesn’t understand the subtleties of language, so don’t use it to translate poetry or to send important emails.

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While Google Reader’s new search feature has many limitations and is still far from Bloglines, there are some features that help you find a post faster.

1. You have three ways to view search results:

* snippet view, similar to the way Google displays web search results. This view helps you decide if a result is useful by showing snippets related to your query.

* expanded view, that shows the full posts. Choose this view if you want to read most search results.

* list view, which only shows the title of the post. This is useful if you want to explore a lot of search results.

2. Exact matches: put quotation marks around your search terms to get the results that include an exact phrase.

3. Wildcard: use an asterisk to replace some words in your query. This only works for exact matches. Include an asterisk for each word you want to replace.

For example: “has * * * new features” matches: “has just announced several new features”, “has recently added two new features”, “has released a few new features”.

4. Negative searches: if you want all the posts that contain [book search] but don’t include [Google], search for [book search -Google].

5. You can bookmark searches. Google Reader doesn’t offer an option to save searches, but if you find yourself repeating the same searches, bookmark them. The latest Google Reader update added transparent URLs so you can use the Back button or bookmark pages.

Example: http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/myquery

6. Search using the keyboard:

/ – add focus to the search box
Tab – choose a folder or a feed to restrict your search
Enter – instead of clicking the Search button, press Enter

Alternate between the three views: 1 (expanded view), 2 (list view), 3 (snippet view).

To select the first search result, press j. Then you can go to the next result (j) or the previous result (k).

Press Enter to read the full post and go back to the search results by pressing Enter again.

7. View a search result in its original context: make sure that the result is active and press v or middle-click on the title. This will open a new tab/window with the blog post or news article.

8. You can search other people’s shared items and public folders. Assuming you know the numeric ID of a user, do a search in your shared items and replace your ID with another ID:

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/query
//user%2FIDNUMBER%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast

Example: here’s a search for [Microsoft] in Robert Scoble’s shared items.

9. Because Google Reader is not yet able to rank results by relevancy, a good way to make sure you’ll find a post in six months is to star it. When you want to retrieve an important post, restrict the search results to the starred items first.

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There are certain moments which gives so much immense satisfaction.. that it cant be described in words.. The Aha Moments.. I really havent had that for a while. I dont knw y.. One could be because I have stopped playing mridangam for a brief while.. Or I could be that I havent gone to Kutcheri for a while.. Or is it because I havent thought for a while.. I dont knw y..

Infact I have come close to it a number of times.. for example I was listening to this song “namo namo raghavaya… “.. I lost myself in music.. the raga.. and the beats which adds so much beauty to the song… But the moment was stopped abruptly as I dont have access to the whole song.. and song that I was listening to has a lot of breaks.. It is one of those.. Its just that moment which I was going so close to .. But it all stopped.. Now I am searching on google for that song..

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Whats happening?
I only hope that sachin isnt retiring today or in near future.
Check this new twist in the date from cricinfo.com

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Rajeev Shukla says denial of retirement news came from him

‘Denial did not come from Tendulkar’ – Team manager

Cricinfo staff

September 7, 2007

Sachin Tendulkar is yet to confirm his retirement plans © Getty Images

In a new twist to the Sachin Tendulkar retirement story it has emerged that he is yet to make an official statement on the issue. A news agency quoted Tendulkar on Thursday as saying he had not thought about retirement but the Indian team’s administrative manager, Rajeev Shukla, confirmed on Friday that the quotes were not from the player.

“That was my statement on Tendulkar’s behalf,” Shukla, also a vice-president of the Indian board, said while referring to the denial. “Tendulkar hasn’t spoken officially to anyone. It was wrongly reported as Tendulkar’s quotes.”

Tendulkar’s statement sought to end speculation over his retiring from one-day cricket after India’s home engagements against Australia and Pakistan later this season. It followed a story reported by Cricinfo on Wednesday, quoting sources close to Tendulkar, that he was inclined to announce his retirement on this tour of England but had been persuaded by friends to do so at home.

The confusion also stemmed from the post-match press conference at The Oval. Rahul Dravid was asked to comment on reports that Tendulkar had planned to retire and had been talked out of it by his team-mates. His answer was brief: “False reports.”

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What a video.. The presentation is so good.. Story about young Thyagaraja

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This is one feature I always wanted in google reader.
I am big fan of google reader, but the biggest drawback I used find was that it lacked search.
But now, I am very happy that they have search. But it is unable to search a part of the word though.. (like sunda doesnt work, sundar works)

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TMK (T M Krishna) in full swing in Vinayakuni (Madhyamavati Raga, Adi Tala)

Btb, there is charan (college junior) in the background

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I am very very relieved. I really want to see sachin play for a while.

Found this article on crininfo.com
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Batsman seeks to end media speculation

I haven’t thought of retirement – Tendulkar

Cricinfo staff

September 6, 2007

Sachin Tendulkar says he isn’t even thinking about retiring © Getty Images

Sachin Tendulkar has dismissed speculation about his retirement from one-day cricket, saying he was “batting brilliantly” at the moment and the thought of quitting had not even crossed his mind.

“The thought of retirement has not crossed my mind,” Tendulkar told PTI. “I am still enjoying the game very much and want to play for as long as I can. Cricket means a lot to me.”

Tendulkar’s clarification sought to end speculation over his retiring from one-day cricket after India’s home engagements against Pakistan and Australia later this season. Cricinfo had reported, quoting sources close to Tendulkar, that he was inclined to announce his retirement on this tour of England but had been persuaded by friends to do so at home.

Tendulkar, along with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, had opted out of the ICC World Twenty20 and he had told The Times of the toll one-day cricket was taking on his body. “I enjoy every moment I have on a cricket field, but the recovery times between games these days are difficult, especially for one-day internationals, and that’s my major obstacle,” he said. “It does take its toll on the body. When you are 22 or 23, you recover a lot more quickly. But at 34, it’s not so easy.”

Tendulkar has been in excellent one-day form on the tour of the United Kingdom so far. In ten innings, he has plundered 548 runs, with four 90s, at a strike rate of 84.3. The tour also reunited him with his opening partner Sourav Ganguly, and the pair, the most prolific in the history of one-day cricket, added four more century partnerships to take their tally to 25, 16 of them for the first wicket.

© Cricinfo

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Found the article in Hindustan Times

I only hope that it is not true.

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Will he, won’t he? After Loksatta, a Marathi daily, reported on Wednesday that Sachin Tendulkar was “set to retire from one-day cricket at Lord’s” on Saturday, media circles here were abuzz. The report stated: “He (Tendulkar) had discussed his desire to retire from ODIs with his best friend around a month ago… But he felt that he should retire honourably, according to his status.”

The paper expected Tendulkar to bid adieu to ODIs either after Lord’s or after the home series against Pakistan later this year. Loksatta quoted an unnamed friend as saying that “even if his mind doesn’t want to accept it, physically he is finding it harder to cope with ODIs”.

What made the grapevine go slightly haywire was the fact that Tendulkar, in an interview to The Times, London, earlier this week, had talked in a similar vein — about how it was getting harder for his body to cope with the rigours of one-day cricket.

However, Rahul Dravid, asked this in the post-match press conference, said these reports were “completely false” and sources close to Tendulkar dismissed them too. Tendulkar himself said what he meant by those remarks was that it would be better if there were more than two days between one-dayers. Logically too, it makes no sense for Tendulkar to contemplate retirement at the moment, given that he is playing beautifully. Yet, star cricketers before him have retired at the top of their prowess.

Sources close to his sponsors say that they are extremely worried, given the money riding on the Tendulkar brand. Like everyone else though, they aren’t quite sure what’s happening.

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