This is a really interesting response, thank you (and thanks for answering so many questions in this thread). That result makes a lot of sense - Google has bee

This is a really interesting response, thank you (and thanks for answering so many questions in this thread). That result makes a lot of sense - Google has been working with the huge corpus of English-European translations (e.g. UN reports) and getting impressive results largely because there's so much data available with such direct equivalences. Just based on personal experimentation, they're much less capable with longer "translation distances" like phonogram<-->logogram and Indo-European<-->Sino-Tibetan. I didn't know IBM was leading on those long-distance translations, that's cool to hear.