Anyway, the page, in all it's glory, is HERE and here are a few highlights:1. What is "automatic translation"?
It's translation produced by state-of-the-art technology, without the intervention of human translators. Automatic translation is also often referred to as machine translation."
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5. Has Google developed its own translation software?
Yes. Google's research group has developed its own statistical translation system for several language pairs now available on Google Translate.
6. What is statistical machine translation?
Most state-of-the-art, commercial machine-translation systems in use today have been developed using a rules-based approach, and require a lot of work by linguists to define vocabularies and grammars.
Our system takes a different approach: we feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model. We've achieved very good results in research evaluations.
I do some freelance translation work every now and then but for some reason I don't feel threaten by Google just yet. Will it ever be as good as human translators? Well, as Google says: that "does not remain just as unclear."As announced, Microsoft updated in the meantime the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification. With the tool Microsoft user wants the WGA examination to the purchase of master software “to persuade”, should on one as geklaut valid Windows Aktivierungsschlüssel to push. The tool telephones however after talking moon, even if users break the installation off.
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When bringing in the installation program of the user demands an agreement again. If one breaks off however here, so some Desktop Firewall strikes alarm: An update program tries to be connected in Internet.
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Microsoft expressed on request of heise Security that the enterprise the data only SAM LCL, in order to improve the quality of the WGA for the user. In addition one transfers about, at which the users the Setup broke place off.
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Whether it will give an updated version of the update, without further inquiry the data at Microsoft dispatched, does not remain just as unclear.
Tina