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News Archive / Computer Aided Translastion Overcomes Language Barriers In Europe
01.07.2010
European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in translation. We live in a global village, and its name is Babel.
As information and communication technologies unite the world into a global village, so the diversity of our global linguistic landscape creates new barriers. The smaller the world becomes the larger the language barrier looms.
Europe is an excellent example in microcosm. Political and social cooperation draw the diverse peoples of Europe ever-closer together, but language often separates them. Fully one half of the European population is incapable of conversing in a second language.
The SMART project stands for Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation, and the project sought to make statistical methods a viable alternative to current paradigms. In just three years the project has made the technology a robust alternative.
Statistical machine translation is not new either. It began in the early 1990s and lets a machine ‘learn’ translation between two languages by looking at thousands of real translations. SMART took that work further by producing robust technology that can match the state of the art in traditional methods. But their platform has not yet had the ‘fine-tuning’ applied to traditional techniques, and so SMART has opened the way to a very promising research path in statistical machine translation.
source: http://www.thegovmonitor.com
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