Microsoft Bing Translator – Rules and Statistical Hybrid

• Bing Translator is a hybridize version of both approached to machine translation, referred to as “Linguistically Informed Statistical Machine Translation”
  
  
• This hybrid system incorporates both language specific dependency trees to augment the
  effectiveness of phrase based statistical machine translation models
  
  
• Because Statistical Translation engines rely on matching phrases in your translation request
  with existing phrases in its database, these systems begin to fail when you use varied grammar
  structures that cause phrases to take on new meaning due to the rearranged word order.
• By employing language specific parsing, dependency, and word alignment rules, the Bing’s unique approach Engine is able to generalize word order in phrases to make them easier for Statistical
  translation engines to process, and then realign the output to match the grammatical intent of
  the original phrase.

Microsoft Bing Translator:http://www.microsofttranslator.com/