Posted in Google, Statistical MT on Jun 17th, 2007
Google dreams of a world where hundreds of languages can be simultaneously translated by machines which compare texts using statistics rather than applying grammatical rules.
Statistical machine translation uses a computer to compare two documents - one in the original language and one translated by a human. It finds patterns and links between the two and [...]
Posted in Google, Statistical MT on Jun 17th, 2007
By Bill Softky
After just a couple years of practice, Google can claim to produce the best computer-generated language translations in the world - in languages their boffin creators don’t even understand.
Last summer, Google took top honors at a bake-off competition sponsored by the American agency NIST between machine-translation engines, besting IBM in English-Arabic and English-Chinese. [...]
Posted in Statistical MT on Jun 17th, 2007
Language Weaver is a Los Angeles, California based company that was founded by USC’s Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, marketing a new software product that learns a language by itself by reading a lot of text (extracting probabilistic translation dictionaries, patterns, and rules), and therefore is able to translate it.
It is hoped that one day [...]
