Google has announced that company’s automatic translation system Google Translate will deploy artificial intelligence for translation of Russian texts, RIA Novosti reports.
Google Translate product lead Barak Turovsky remarked that the company started using neural machine translation for eight world languages including Russian. It enabled to raise the quality of translation to the brand new level.
Now the system tries to translate whole sentences instead of separate word phrases. So-called deep neural networks handle not the original data, but products of analysis of the obtained network, located above. As if the system is reading a text without translating separate words or phrases as it was with classical algorithms. The translation system searches for the answer as a whole, using the data accumulated in the analysis of texts translated by humans.
The developers believe that this new algorithm will help making many mistakes and avoiding difficulties of finding translations of rare words. According to users’ feedback, the quality of translation for some pairs of languages is equal to human translation now.
Programmers state that the number of mistakes decreased by 60%.
Russkiy Mir
