Sunday, May 4, 2008

University Research Program for Google Translate

The University Research Program for Google Translate provides researchers, in the field of automatic machine translation, tools to help compare and contrast with, and build on top of, Google's statistical machine translation system.
Participation in the program will allow researchers programmatic access to Google's translation service.
A translation request returns either:
A single translation, the highest scoring output of Google Translate
As above but with detailed word alignment information
A list of the n-best translations with detailed scoring information
These options can support research into n-best reranking (machine learning), additional translation components, system combinations, and who knows what else researchers may come up with.
The program currently supports translations between the following language pairs:
English <=> Arabic
English <=> Chinese
English <=> Russian

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