Color me really surprised; paragon and derivatives (at least for German) were definitely worse; I remember the (2008-ish?) surprise when ANN-based translations started to achieve higher rankings than purely Bayes-based/statistical methods.
(Oh and I do personally remember things like the Babylon spyware thing, which wasn't really good. IBM Watson didn't work as well as Google translate when that came out, for German<->English at least. I had played with Aperium in its earlier …
Marcus Müller
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