Posted in Google Translator on Jun 21st, 2007
Recently Google blog had announced a new feature on Google Translate - a translation search offering visitors the possibility to search websites in another language. The tool allows you to enter your search phrase, the language you speak and the language that you want to find results in.
Interestingly enough that Smart Link Corporation had developed [...]
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. [...]
