draco
12-22-2007, 10:48 AM
http://www.google.com/translate_t
Google Translate is a service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, or a webpage, into another language, with limits to the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, translated. For some languages, users are asked for alternate translations, such as for technical terms, to be included for future updates to the translation process.
Unlike other translation services Babel Fish, AOL, Yahoo and MSN, which use SYSTRAN, Google uses their own Translation machine.
Their own version use an approach called statistical machine translation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. The corpus is 20 billion words' worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. The next version is now a live beta for certain translations such as Arabic - English.
The service also includes translation of an entire Web page. The translation is limited in number of paragraphs per webpage (such as indicated by break-tags "<br>"); however, if text on a webpage is separated by horizontal blank-line images (auto-wrapped without using any "<br>"), a long webpage can be translated containing several thousand words.
Options
(by chronological order)
* Beginning
o English to French
o English to German
o English to Spanish
o French to English
o German to English
o Spanish to English
o French to German
o German to French
* 2nd stage
o English to Portuguese
o Portuguese to English
* 3rd stage
o English to Italian
o Italian to English
* 4th stage
o English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
o English to Japanese BETA
o English to Korean BETA
o Chinese (Simplified) to English BETA
o Japanese to English BETA
o Korean to English BETA
* 5th stage
o English to Russian BETA
o Russian to English BETA
* 6th stage
o English to Arabic BETA
o Arabic to English BETA
* 7th stage (launched February, 2007)
o English to Chinese (Traditional) BETA
o Chinese (Traditional) to English BETA
o Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) BETA
o Chinese (Traditional to Simplified) BETA
Google Translate is a service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, or a webpage, into another language, with limits to the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, translated. For some languages, users are asked for alternate translations, such as for technical terms, to be included for future updates to the translation process.
Unlike other translation services Babel Fish, AOL, Yahoo and MSN, which use SYSTRAN, Google uses their own Translation machine.
Their own version use an approach called statistical machine translation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. The corpus is 20 billion words' worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. The next version is now a live beta for certain translations such as Arabic - English.
The service also includes translation of an entire Web page. The translation is limited in number of paragraphs per webpage (such as indicated by break-tags "<br>"); however, if text on a webpage is separated by horizontal blank-line images (auto-wrapped without using any "<br>"), a long webpage can be translated containing several thousand words.
Options
(by chronological order)
* Beginning
o English to French
o English to German
o English to Spanish
o French to English
o German to English
o Spanish to English
o French to German
o German to French
* 2nd stage
o English to Portuguese
o Portuguese to English
* 3rd stage
o English to Italian
o Italian to English
* 4th stage
o English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
o English to Japanese BETA
o English to Korean BETA
o Chinese (Simplified) to English BETA
o Japanese to English BETA
o Korean to English BETA
* 5th stage
o English to Russian BETA
o Russian to English BETA
* 6th stage
o English to Arabic BETA
o Arabic to English BETA
* 7th stage (launched February, 2007)
o English to Chinese (Traditional) BETA
o Chinese (Traditional) to English BETA
o Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) BETA
o Chinese (Traditional to Simplified) BETA