Cool work! But my experience with Google Translate is that nowadays it seems to be wholly focused on machine-learning translations of full sentences, so for sin

Cool work! But my experience with Google Translate is that nowadays it seems to be wholly focused on machine-learning translations of full sentences, so for single words the results can be almost entirely random. E.g. you type in the characters for the Japanese word for "raisin", and depending on which parts you change to kanji the results can be starfish, dried fish, dried persimmons, etc. On the topic of sorting, I've always found it interesting that Japanese input forms with a pulldown menu for prefecture almost always list them in north to south order, rather than AIUEO or charcode or anything else. I think I read somewhere that this stems from some kind of official government encoding that was baked into Shift-JIS, or something along those lines.