Learn more about Baidu in SEW's "Baidu Paid attention, you can’t afford to rely on machine translation. It’s best to opt for professional translation – or better still, transcreation. In Russia, for example, Yandex is the most commonly used search...
As with keywords, you certainly shouldn't rely on dictionary or machine translation. A literal translation of "car insurance" into French, for example, would be "l'assurance automobile". You should think transcreation rather than translation...
What localization agencies also have is a bank of translation experts. Although machine translations are good, they don't give you that genuine local feel and simple inaccuracies can be a real give away.
You can also save more on translation, and open up a whole new host of information to multilingual visitors, by using post-edited machine translation for low-value, high quantity content like comments, wikis, or user reviews, which aren't business...
This technique of translating pitches and comments will come in handy if you're operating on a budget and using Google Translate as your translation service, as you can get the gist of an article using machine translation, and then use it again to...
Background noise will make it difficult for machine-generated translation. While YouTube is touting this as an accessibility feature - and it is - the SEO in me sees the obvious implications for search.
This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. But it also has great implications for search.
Writing on the Live Search blog, Lane Rau, Marketing Manager, Microsoft Research Machine Translation team said: Microsoft's Live Search now offers translation, powered by Microsoft Translator technology.
It looks as if Google will take the lead on using local translators to aid machine translation. Google's translation search feature matches a current translation with previous translations, so it won't be necessary to translate a document more than...
Anaphora, Complex Stemming, etc.Posted by MissOpieI think that statistical machine translation, translation using parallel texts, have produced less than adequate translation. Search Engine Watch Experts Columns
The symposium is part of a larger effort to explore opportunities for research and application of large-scale computing to benefit applications ranging from machine translation to genomic medicine. At Search Engine Strategies (SES) New York last...
Machine translation can't capture the rhythms of poetry and so it doesn't try. Keywords in search engine wargames played by presidential candidates. Search has a viral aspect as the Obama keywords prove.
Algorithms fuel search engines, spam filters, online advertising engines, social networks, machine translation and most of the online world. Link spam can be detected in many ways besides the SpamRank-type algorithms: applying machine learning to...
Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of local mobile search. Michael Fitzgerald in The New York Times today highlights voice search and voice recognition software in gadgets that "Listen and Obey.
Everyone in the search community knows machine translation isn't perfect and global Web sites require localization. The ghoulish post slams MT (machine translation) of foreign languages. My colleague, ClickZ Executive Editor, AnnaMaria Virzi...
Machine translation must guess at the database of intentions, just as search engines do. Machine translation hasn't ignored context. For example, Battelle's online concept -- "database of intentions" -- informs our understanding of language...
Part 3What does Google really want to achieve with machine translation? SEW Experts: Machines In Translation: Do MT Engineers Dream of Selectric Sheep? We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch...
Part 3What does Google really want to achieve with machine translation? SEW Experts: Machines In Translation: Do MT Engineers Dream of Selectric Sheep? Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
So we looked at how people in a business and professional network facilitated my search for where machine translation fits into Google's ecosystem and how marketers can benefit from it. Machine translation can extend a search engine's capabilities.
What does Google really want to achieve with machine translation? In today's Search Engine WarGames column, "Machines In Translation: Do MT Engineers Dream of Selectric Sheep? Part 3," Search Engine Watch Executive Editor Kevin Heisler suggest that...
