1. 30 April 2006

    985 days ago

    Statistical machine translation live

    Google has launched it’s Arabic <-> English translation machine, which fascinates me. A computer takes two examples of the same text and analyzes them, to the point that it knows how to translate the languages. Al Jazeera’s arabic homepage translated. An excerpt:

    Thousands of people demonstrated in New York to demand the immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. They declared their willingness to continue this campaign until the legislative elections in the US November next.

    Some of it is a bit incomprehensible, but overall it’s quite impressive.

    Kjell Olsen985 days ago

  2. 22 August 2005

    1235 days ago

    NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Results

    Google rocks the machine translating world. I don’t really know what this means, but google is my only french -> english dictionary. It’s damn good now, and looks to be getting better. Google took top place in both arabic and chinese to english categories.

    via Kjell Olsen1235 days ago

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