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I always assumed Google has two kinds of translations - the online we know from the web, which is fast though simple, and an offline, that is much more realisti
by bitL 13y ago
I always assumed Google has two kinds of translations - the online we know from the web, which is fast though simple, and an offline, that is much more realistic but slow. Other companies achieved very good offline translations (often by employing professional translations that translated sentences between languages and building databases for automated translation) and I see no reason why Google wouldn't be able to create/license a similar one.
- ma2rten 13y agoAll machine translation is based on professional sentence-by-sentence translations.
- lkbm 13y agoExcept Google Translate, which is just a statistical analysis of a huge corpus.
- Mvandenbergh 13y agoYes, of texts available in multiple languages. Which were originally translated by humans.
- runn1ng 13y agoThis is wildly inaccurate.
- ma2rten 13y agoThis is only wildly inaccurate, if you include rule based translation, which is based on hand-crafted models. All statistical machine translation, of which Google Translate is one is based on professional translations. As far as I know all published methods rely on aligning them sentence-by-sentence.
- frik 13y agoMaybe both services run on different data centers and the statistical model is trained with other corpus. Google Translate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Microsoft Bing Translator works very similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Translator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Translator