Google's computer might betters translation tool

Quotes

1. “ The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing! ”

2. “ What you see on Google Translate is state of the art ”

3. “ He basically said that this is something that is very important for Google. ”

   By Franz Och

4. “ The models become better and better the more text you process. ”

   By Franz Och

5. “ The current quality improvement curve is still pretty steep. ”

Entities Mentioned

• Microsoft
• Google
• Google Translate
• IBM
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Franz Och
• New York Times
• University of Southern California
• University of Maryland
• South Korea
• United Nations
• Language Technologies Institute
• Sergey Brin
• European Parliament
• Alon Lavie
• Philip Resnik
• Vic Gundotra
• Larry Page
• Tim O'Reilly
• O'Reilly Media
• Miguel Helft

1. In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed. The ... (Read Full Article)

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