Google Translate

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Google Translate is a service provided by Google Inc.

Like other translation services Babel Fish, AOL, Yahoo and MSN the current version uses SYSTRAN.

The next version will use an innovative approach called statistical machine translation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. The corpus is 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. The next version is now a live beta for certain translations such as Arabic - English.

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(by chronological order)

Beginning
- English to French
- English to German
- English to Spanish
- French to English
- German to English
- Spanish to English
- French to German
- German to French

2nd stage
- English to Portuguese
- Portuguese to English

3rd stage
- English to Italian
- Italian to English

4th stage
- English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
- English to Japanese BETA
- English to Korean BETA
- Chinese (Simplified) to English BETA
- Japanese to English BETA
- Korean to English BETA

5th stage
- English to Russian BETA
- Russian to English BETA

6th stage
- English to Arabic BETA
- Arabic to English BETA

7th stage (launched February, 2007)
- English to Chinese (Traditional) BETA
- Chinese (Traditional) to English BETA
- Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) BETA
- Chinese (Traditional to Simplified) BETA