Sri: How does the google language translator work?
The google translator translates sentences from one language to another (though the translation is not always correct). I would like to know how it works. Whether it has a database of all the words in all the supported languages with their corresponding meanings? Or if it uses some other mechanism or perhaps an algorithm for the translation.
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Answer by Marla
You type in what you want to translate in the first box then say wat language it is then tell wat language u want to translate it to and click translate and wahla
It’s statistically-based machine translation[1]. Read all about that in Wikipedia[2].
My take on the articles is this: There is a special database of documents[2] that are translated into various languages–a really big Rosetta stone. The phrase to be translated is located in a document of the source language then cross-referenced to the various translations in the target language. Of the various possible translations, statistical analysts is used to determine which to use. Grammar and other elements of language are considered in the analysis.
What follows is a quote from the beginning of Wikipedia’s description of the basis of statistically-based machine translation. After the quote, it gets very involved in information theory:
“The idea behind statistical machine translation comes from information theory. A document is translated according to the probability distribution p(e | f) that a string e in the target language (for example, English) is the translation of a string f in the source language (for example, French).”
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