No More Language Barriers
I know I know, more fodder about Google. It’s still quite fascinating stuff though.
This time it’s about a translation engine in the works that is taking a different approach from the norm. Instead of brute force translation that’s done word for word, they are using a statistical modeling technique that pores over existing translated texts. Their basis? 200 billion plus words from United Nations translations. What they’re doing is to see how diffent word phrases can be translated different ways and keeping track of those patterns. Or what this article calls the Rossetta Stone way.
It’s a short read that you should find pretty interesting. Maybe in the near future I’ll be able to communicate w/ my relatives just by IM’ing them in english and they’ll respond in their own language, with google doing the translation transparently in the background. This does have some scary implications though, in that google would be the backbone of global communication/translation.
Josh Lee said,
May 31, 2005 @ 6:50pm
hey, do you happen to know anyone in the DFW area with an e30 for sale? mine is a goner…
(got rear-ended, needs a new gas tank, AC system, water pump, and belts). it aint worth fixin it, so i’m gonna part it out..
pretty neat google stuff too
Jennifer said,
June 1, 2005 @ 2:18pm
BIG NERD AARON. please post less nerdy entries. thanks.
Josh Lee said,
June 2, 2005 @ 3:32pm
Hey Aaron, you’ve worked with the cooling system of your car before right?
do ya know what could cause coolant to leak out like this? http://www.rit.edu/~jyl4032/e30/IMG_3451.jpg
(this happened overnight, the expansion tank is empty)
Last week a shop said i had a water pump bearing going bad, and my belts needed replacing (they said they were the wrong size).