> When you use Google to translate from English to Spanish, it’s not like the service has ever seen that particular sentence before. But that is exactly how it

> When you use Google to translate from English to Spanish, it’s not like the service has ever seen that particular sentence before. But that is exactly how it works. Translation companies license (or produce) huge corpuses of common sentences across multiple languages that are either used directly or fed into a model. Third party human translators are asked to assign rights to the translation company. https://support.google.com/translate/answer/2534530 https://support.google.com/translate/answer/2534530