Google Translate (Google Translation) is a service provided by Google Inc.. to translate the text or web page in one language to another language. For some languages, users are asked to provide an alternative translation, such as for the technical term, which will be included in the update process for the next translation. Unlike other translation services such as Babel Fish and SYSTRAN using AOL, Google uses its own translation software.Google Translate, like other automatic translation tool, has several limitations. Although readers can help to understand the general content of foreign language text, but does not provide accurate translation. Google translate approach, called statistical-based translation. Translation of research results is so Franz-Josef och who have won the contest for the DARPA machine translation speed in 2003. Och now become department heads Google's translation engine.
According och, to develop a machine translation system based on statistics for the two languages required a collection of parallel texts in two languages, which comprises more than one million words of text and two other collections for each language consists of more than one billion words. Model statistics from this data is then used to perform translation between these languages.
To obtain the linguistic data in very large amount of this, Google is using the documents of the United Nations. The Arabic and Chinese as official UN language may be one of the reasons why Google Translate initially focused on making the translation between languages with English-language, and not, for example, Japanese or German, which is not an official language at the United Nations. Google representatives are very active in the local conference in Japan ask researchers to provide them with parallel text collections.
