Category: Developers
Announcements and Sessions at MIX09(Updated)
The Microsoft Translator team is sponsoring MIX 09 this year and we will be showing off the new web page translation widget and the translator APIs. If you are attending MIX, come to our session! All attendees go widget invite codes in the bags. At this session you will see how you can make use of them. MIX09-B05M Exposing Web….
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Polish now available on MicrosoftTranslator.com
We are happy to announce the release of our English <-> Polish translation engine! Some of you have been asking us about Polish translation, and we’re excited to deliver for you! We’ve also made some quality improvements to our Spanish, French, German, and Italian engines – if you’ve tried these languages out in the past, give them another try and….
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Testing translation quality: Guest Blog
Anand Chakravarty is an SDET on the Machine Translation team for the past 2.5 years, has been at Microsoft for 8 years, and was the first product tester on the MT team (and “still having fun with testing MT :-)”). Today’s guest blog is about testing translation quality. ————————————————————————————————————— One of the first points that comes to mind, when talking….
A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog
Lee Schwartz is a Computational Linguist on the Microsoft Translator team. Today’s guest blog is about getting lost in (machine) translation… ———————————————————————————– Recently, a user seemed upset with the translation he received for a metal paint can. No wonder. When he translated this into Spanish, he got un metal pintura puede, which means a metal paint is able to. And,….
Translation User Experience: Guest Blog
Andrea Jessee is the Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Translator team in charge of the user experience. Today’s guest blog is how the team thinks about user experience with translation. Creating a better user experience We have shown the suite of Microsoft Translation services at various shows and tech events. The number one question we get is: Show me….
New language pair on MicrosoftTranslator.com
The Translator team is excited to announce the availability of the English to Russian language pair on MicrosoftTranslator.com. This language pair is now available across all implementations of the translator technology, including Live Search and (in the next few days) the Windows Live Messenger TBot. You have probably noticed that the Russian to English language pair has been available for….
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Linking to a foreign language web page with Microsoft Translator
Have you ever wanted to link to a web page that is in a different language than your own site? (Update 01-2015) Translator Widget: For your own pages (http and https) The Microsoft Translator webpage widget allows you to deliver the page in multiple languages, without taking your users away from the site. Go here to get the code snippet….
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Politically Incorrect Machines
While we at the Machine Translation team have been seeing increasing traffic to our various offerings over the past few months, we noticed a sudden bump in traffic yesterday. Having grown up on Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes, such mysteries are irresistible for me – and a number of other folks on the team were just as curious to find….
Microsoft Translator makes the Web more worldly
Did you know that Microsoft Translator powers translations in Live Search Bing? For example, to translate this search result, click “Translate this page” at the end of the result description: You’ll see the page in a bilingual view, with the original page on the left, and the translated page on the right. Here is the list languages we support today: English….
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Statistical Machine Translation – Guest Blog (Updated with additional paper)
Will Lewis is a program manager on the Microsoft Translator team, working on language quality and data acquisition. Today’s guest blog is a high level explanation of how the engine works: As many of you know, under the hood Microsoft Translator is powered by a Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) engine. Statistical systems are different than rule-based ones in that the….
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