The long answer is to read up on the research in statistical machine translation. http://scholar.google.com/ may be able to help you find some good papers to read.
You can also see publications by Google on the topic at http://research.google.com/ Under publications, look at the "Natural language processing" papers, in particular, those with Franz Och as one of the authors. Cheers, Josh On Apr 29, 9:48 pm, hbox wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks so much for your reply! Is it possible to get the long answer > to my question somehow? I'm really interested in how Google Translate > "takes into context the whole sentence", for example. > > Best, > Otso > > On Apr 29, 5:47 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > > > > > Hi hbox, > > > The short answer is Google Translate is a phrase-based machine > > translation system, which means it generally finds translations on the > > phrase level. However, it will take into context the whole sentence > > when deciding on the best translation. > > > Hope that helps, > > Josh > > > On Apr 28, 9:48 pm, hbox wrote: > > > > What unit of language does Google Translate translates at a time? In > > > other words, when Google Translate searches for equivalents in another > > > language, what is the unit it searches for, a word, a sentence, a > > > phrase? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "General" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email address]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email address]. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "General" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email address]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email address]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email address]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email address]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
