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Fair play to Microsoft. Thats some impressive tech.
by WorkingClassDev 12y ago
Fair play to Microsoft. Thats some impressive tech.
- Schwolop 12y agoIndeed. I wonder if they'll also want to call it Babel Fish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish just confused me more, and I've now no idea who actually owns the trademark rights to that term. (It was AltaVista, bought by Yahoo!, spun-off into Bing Translate, which was partially bought by Microsoft, and ... I'm lost... )
- frik 12y agoYahoo/Altavista Bablefish and Google Translation (til 2007) were based on SYSTRAN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran (a desktop version for offline usage is even available) Now, both Bing Translator and Google Translation use a technology called statistical machine translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation