What does Google Translate mean for international language services?
posted Mon, 2012-04-30 15:59 by
On Google Translate's sixth birthday this month, its developers had plenty of reasons to celebrate. Two hundred million in fact: that’s the number of people who use its free international language services each month.
“In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you'd find in one million books,” Google Translate engineer Franz Och wrote in a blog post. It’s roughly the same amount all human translators produce in a year.
tags: Google Translate, international language services, machine translation
International football chat uses machine translation
posted Mon, 2010-06-14 12:07 by
Whereever you go in the world, the one topic that unites just about everyone – regardless of language – is football.
With the World Cup in full swing, the BBC has been exploring the potential of machine translation for real-time international football chat with their World Cup Team Talk forum.
tags: BBC, Google Translate, machine translation, PEMT, World Cup
Rating the web’s translation engines
posted Tue, 2010-05-25 18:23 by
A recent survey into the three major online translation engines – Google Translate, Microsoft’s Bing Translator and Yahoo! Babelfish – yielded some interesting results.
Reviews from more than 1000 participants found Google Translate to be superior for long text passages, while Bing and Babelfish were competitive for shorter passages, with Bing excelling in German and Italian and Babelfish superior in Chinese.
tags: Babelfish, Bing, Google Translate, statistical machine translation, Translation, translation engine
