Bench-testing Google's statistical machine translation service</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Bench-testing Google's statistical machine translation service"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Bench-testing,Googles,statistical,machine,translation,service"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">25-10-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Bench-testing Google's statistical machine translation service</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_FPzy7f3ymEp54vowVgpr_0.gif" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Massachusetts, USA (Ars Technica): Automated translation systems, such as Alta Vista's Babelfish, have relied on a set of human-defined rules that attempt to encapsulate the underlying grammar and vocabulary used to construct a language. Although Google has been using that approach to power much of its translation service, it's not really in keeping with the company's philosophy of using some clever code and a massive data set. So it should be no surprise that the company has started developing its own statistical machine translation service. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071024-lost-in-translation-hands-on-with-googles-new-stats-based-translator.html" target="blank">arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071024-lost-in-translation-hands-on-with-googles-new-stats-based-translator.html</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show