Google Translate

On the waiting list? By popular demand, the Google Translate team has agreed to repeat this talk in the spring! Details here: Google Translate Update (https://www.meetup.com/IMUG-Silicon-Valley/events/213590012/), March 19, 2015

IMUG maps, directions: http://www.imug.org/google/

No webcast. If recorded and released, we will post links in the comments below and in the imug.org archives (http://imug.org/events/imug-2014-events.htm)

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Google Translate is a statistical machine translation service that currently supports 80 languages and processes more than 1B user translation requests per day. While Translate helps numerous people around the world communicate and learn new languages, it could always use a little help to improve translation quality for already supported languages, as well as help in adding new languages. This talk will focus on Translate's evolution over the years, its inner workings, and the recent launch of the Translate Community (https://translate.google.com/community), a crowdsourcing platform designed to improve machine translation quality by leveraging knowledge of multilingual users and language enthusiasts.

About the Speakers:

In her current role, Sveta Kelman is a program manager for Google Translate. She has previously spent several years on the Google Localization team, managing L10n process for a number of Google consumer products. Having made a switch to the machine translation team, she is currently focusing on expanding Google Translate to more languages, as well as the recently launched Google Translate Community. Passionate about languages and translation for many years, Sveta holds an M.A. in Scandinavian Philology from St. Petersburg State University (Russia).

Arne Mauser (Technical lead, Google Translate in More Languages) and Keith Stevens (Technical lead, Google Translate Crowdsourcing) will join the panel.

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