Category: Developers
New Features for July
Simplified Chinese and Spanish General Domain engines complete Last time I blogged about launching the English to Spanish language pair using our own Microsoft technology – our team has made great progress since then. We’ve completed the Spanish bidirectional pair with Spanish to English, and launching Simplified Chinese both to and from English. We’re going to keep adding languages in….
New Features
Doing some catch-up here, so some of you may have already seen some of these new features – let me know what you think of them! English to Spanish general domain system deployed on live site Our team is constantly working to improve our translation quality. As you know, some of our general domain systems are powered by third party….
Livetranslation.com professional translation service now available
While our free service meets the needs of many users, the availability of fast-turnaround professional translation through Livetranslation.com ensures that the needs of those who need low-cost, high quality human translations can be met. Users of our landing page will now be able to enjoy the best of both worlds by selecting the option to upgrade from an automatic translation….
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Congratulations to the MSR-MT researchers!
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its 2008 Machine Translation Evaluation Results. From their website: The NIST 2008 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-08) is part of an ongoing series of evaluations of human language translation technology. NIST conducts these evaluations in order to support machine translation (MT) research and help advance the state-of-the-art in machine translation technology. These….
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To Bot or not to Bot (IM Translation)
Did you know that MSN messenger recently became* is the number one instant messenger in the world? Last summer, thanks to the efforts of Helvecio on our team, the MTBot prototype project quietly launched – to provide a glimpse to the community of 28.6 million unique messenger users what might be possible when you combine machine translation technology with instant….
Extended FAQ for the Microsoft Translator
1) Where can I find help with the translator service? Help and FAQ are here. 2) How is the text translated? Text is translated by computer software automatically and without human involvement. Web pages about computer-related topics are translated by Microsoft’s own state-of-the-art statistical machine translation technology which has been trained on large amounts of computer-related data. Web pages….
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Machine Translation group at Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research’s Machine Translation (MSR-MT) group has been among the leading research organizations in the machine translation space for over 8 years, and some of the foundational work in natural language processing at MSR began over 16 years ago. The team’s approach to machine translation integrates linguistic features with state-of-the-art statistical machine translation algorithms. The team’s focus has always been….
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Welcome to the Machine Translation team blog!
Welcome to our blog! We are very excited to bring to you news and insights into work (and fun) at the Machine Translation (MT) Group within Microsoft Research. We have great mix of researchers, developers, testers, program managers, linguists, designers and product managers working on MT here, and we are pleased to launch this blog as a way to connect….
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