Wednesday, September 14, 2011

In case you wondered ...

... How Google Translate works - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The corpus it can scan includes all the paper put out since 1957 by the EU in two dozen languages, everything the UN and its agencies have ever done in writing in six official languages, and huge amounts of other material, from the records of international tribunals to company reports and all the articles and books in bilingual form that have been put up on the web by individuals, libraries, booksellers, authors and academic departments.

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