In talking with the Translator team following MIX (where they announced they were working on a Silverlight class library for the API. It was good to interact with their team to understand their direction and provide some feedback on how they were approaching it. In the meantime, with their direction, I had started working on a simple wrapper for myself while writing the Translator for Seesmic plugin I was writing. I’ve received a few inquiries on Translator so I thought I’d post my library here for you to see/use.
One of the announcements that happened during the MIX10 conference was the availability of the V2 of the Microsoft Translator API. This is the engine that powers the translation behind http://www.bing.com/translate and some other Bing-related properties as well. A lot of research has gone into the engine from Microsoft Research and others. Language translation isn’t an easy task especially taking into consideration cultural significance of words, etc.