April 30, 2006
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Google adds Arabic translation
Google Research has released a new system of machine translation based on statistical analysis of text. They explain what that means in layman terms on their blog as…
“…we feed the computer with billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model.”
The system is in beta like almost all of their offerings and just went live. You can find the beta site here.
Time to have some fun practicing Arabic :)
