[FDE] How Google translates without understanding

Ali, Saqib docbook.xml at gmail.com
Mon May 14 22:40:15 MDT 2007


This is a very interesting article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/google_translation/

Google uses Statistical deciphering to translate from one language to
another. This is the same technique used in code breaking. Essentially
they treat the second language as an unknown code, and use statistical
cues to find a mathematical formula to decode it.


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