Q. I tried google translator and a bunch of other translators. NONE WORK WITH NUMBERS IN THEM.
BONUS: If arabs replace characters that we dont have on the english keyboard, then how do they choose the numbers?
BONUS: If arabs replace characters that we dont have on the english keyboard, then how do they choose the numbers?
A. 5 = S
9 = G
9 = G
How does the google language translator work?
Q. The google translator translates sentences from one language to another (though the translation is not always correct). I would like to know how it works. Whether it has a database of all the words in all the supported languages with their corresponding meanings? Or if it uses some other mechanism or perhaps an algorithm for the translation.
A. It's statistically-based machine translation[1]. Read all about that in Wikipedia[2].
My take on the articles is this: There is a special database of documents[2] that are translated into various languages--a really big Rosetta stone. The phrase to be translated is located in a document of the source language then cross-referenced to the various translations in the target language. Of the various possible translations, statistical analysts is used to determine which to use. Grammar and other elements of language are considered in the analysis.
What follows is a quote from the beginning of Wikipedia's description of the basis of statistically-based machine translation. After the quote, it gets very involved in information theory:
"The idea behind statistical machine translation comes from information theory. A document is translated according to the probability distribution p(e | f) that a string e in the target language (for example, English) is the translation of a string f in the source language (for example, French)."
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My take on the articles is this: There is a special database of documents[2] that are translated into various languages--a really big Rosetta stone. The phrase to be translated is located in a document of the source language then cross-referenced to the various translations in the target language. Of the various possible translations, statistical analysts is used to determine which to use. Grammar and other elements of language are considered in the analysis.
What follows is a quote from the beginning of Wikipedia's description of the basis of statistically-based machine translation. After the quote, it gets very involved in information theory:
"The idea behind statistical machine translation comes from information theory. A document is translated according to the probability distribution p(e | f) that a string e in the target language (for example, English) is the translation of a string f in the source language (for example, French)."
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Does anyone know if google translator always translates through a central language.?
Q. I was wondering if google translator always translates through a central language. For example, if you are translating from spanish to portuguese, does it translate from spanish to english and then english to portuguese, or does it have databases connecting all the languages?
A. Yes, it always answers through a central language. I once tried translating German to Russian. You know how the translator leaves words it doesn't know in the original language? This time, it left English words in the text. Obviously, it knew the German-to-English translation, but not the English-to-Russian one for these words.
I cannot tell you if the central language is always English, but I guess so.
By the way, if it were trying to implement direct translations for every language pair supported, it wouldn't be a matter of a database only. It would be a question of "how the grammatical rules from language A get transformed into the rules from language B". And this is much harder to implement than a simple dictionary database.
I cannot tell you if the central language is always English, but I guess so.
By the way, if it were trying to implement direct translations for every language pair supported, it wouldn't be a matter of a database only. It would be a question of "how the grammatical rules from language A get transformed into the rules from language B". And this is much harder to implement than a simple dictionary database.
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5=خ and 9=ص and the word means something like riddance but less hard
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