Google Language Translation Tool - Arabic Translation beta
As the world wide web spread across the world, more and more web pages are made available in languages other than English. Google has provide a translation link and language tools to enable you to read more pages written in unfamiliar languages.
The Google Research blog posted an article about how Google’s translation tools work differently than most commercial machine translation systems. Recently, Google released their Arabic translation tool — I’ve only tried it once, but it looks very good.
I went to aljazeera.net to find some Arabic text so I could try the tool. I translated the first page I could find – the results were amazingly readable. Here is a screenshot showing the result of my translation.
I don’t know Arabic, but I do know now that the translation says Hamas condemned the United States to provide financial support for the Palestinian Presidential Guard forces, and considered it blatant interference in Palestinian internal affairs..
The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation results show that Google is ahead of companies like SYSTRAN — the brains behind Yahoo’s tool called “babelfish” and other popular lanaguage tools that cost you an arm and leg for their software translation tool.
You can try out the tool for yourself here: Google Language Tool
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It will look like this: Google Language Translation Tool - Arabic Translation beta
