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30 April 2006


Google’s Language Tools II

Google has released an Arabic to English and English to Arabic machine translation engine. AFAIK, it uses a statistical approach to build the bilingual corpuses. I tried to cut and paste Arabic texts from Al-Jazeera and translate them into English and they seemed to make a lot of sense.

Obviously, there is a cap on what machine translation can achieve (if linguistics was an exact science, jokes wouldn’t exist), but if the translations are accurate this seems to be a significant leap.