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Consider also that Google has context when they translate for their stores, but they can only infer context from the content of translations on Google Translate

• bri3d 12y ago
  I had the same thought: it's clear when translating a game description that the name of the game is a noun in whichever gender is appropriate for proper names of software in the target language. Has anyone done any more widespread analysis of "auto"-translated Play Store descriptions versus those available through Google's public translate service? It would be interesting to see how much is contextual and how much suggests a different set of rules, training data, or algorithm.
• raverbashing 12y ago
  I think this is the right answer Of course, you can't feed context in the public tool It's probably the same one, tuned for the specific issues (not translating the name, "fixed" genders and terms/translations for specific words, context clues, etc) If I'm not mistaken Google uses translations as well when matching content on your site to serve AdSense content.
• darkhorn 12y ago
  Exactly, Google Translate is a statistical translation.
• PeterisP 12y ago
  This would be a reasonable guess. Statistical machine translation models can be made a lot more accurate than the general models (i.e., Google Translate on the web) if you can pick a single specific domain, and use a focused training text corpus and terminology; and this improvement can be achieved without any improvements to the underlying algorithms.