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Language identification

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Language identification is the process of determining which natural language given content is in. Traditionally, identification of written language – as practiced, for instance, in library science – has relied on manually identifying frequent words and letters known to be characteristic of particular languages. More recently, computational approaches have been applied [...]

Machine translation applications

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

There are now many software programs for translating natural language, several of them online, such as:

SYSTRAN, which powers Yahoo’s Babel Fish
Promt, which powers online translation services at Voila.fr and Orange.fr

Although no system provides the holy grail of fully automatic high-quality machine translation, many systems produce reasonable output.
Despite their inherent limitations, MT programs [...]

Approaches in machine translation

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Pyramid showing comparative depths of intermediary representation, interlingual machine translation at the peak, followed by transfer-based, then direct translation.
Machine translation can use a method based on linguistic rules, which means that words will be translated in a linguistic way — the most suitable (orally speaking) words of the target language [...]

Machine translation

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT, is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. At its basic level, MT performs simple substitution of words in one natural language for words in another. [...]