More on Statistical Language Translation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 31, 2003 @12:18AM from the ma-grandmere-est-flambe dept.

DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running an article about how statistical language translation schemes have come of age. Rather than compile an extensive list of words and their literal translations via bilingual human programmers, statistical translation work by comparing texts in both English and another language and 'learning' the other language via statistical methods applied to units called 'N-grams'- e.g. if 'hombre alto' means tall man, and 'hombre grande' means big man, then hombre=man, alto=tall, and grande=big." See our previous story for more info.

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Re:Who can translate this?? by qta · 2003-07-31 00:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Windows = "Windows" - will give translation when enough statistical info becomes available

NT = Not Trustworthy
.Net = Non-ExistenT
Re:This approach is limited by Oryx3 · 2003-07-31 03:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

By the way, does anybody know how to post non-ASCII text on Slashdot?