Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.
Posts with tag.: machine translation
Google translated 16 million words into Hindi, Tamil, Swahili and more for Wikipedia using Google Trends to pick articles and humans to fix the machine drafts.
How linguists are using crowdsourced volunteers to translate low resource languages that machine translation still cannot handle, from Haiti to intelligence work.
Machine translation is a triage tool in cross-border litigation, not a substitute for human legal translation. Where it saves money and where it loses cases.
An EU-commissioned report valued Europe's language industry at $12bn and growing 10% a year. Why the sector stayed invisible and what the investors saw first.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.