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Yandex.Translate
Type of site
Statistical machine translation
Available in90 languages, see features
Interface: English, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
OwnerYandex
URLtranslate.yandex.com (in English)
translate.yandex.ru (in Russian)
ceviri.yandex.com.tr (in Turkish)
translate.yandex.ua (in Ukrainian)
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedMarch 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-03-22)[1][2]
Current statusActive

Yandex.Translate (previously Yandex.Translation) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or web pages into another language.

The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation,[3] developed by Yandex.[4] The system constructs the dictionary of correspondences based on the analysis of millions of translated texts. In order to translate the text, the computer first compares it to a database of words. The computer then compares the text to the base language models, trying to determine the meaning of an expression in the context of the text.

The translation function obtained in the search results pages (on the button "Translate") appeared in 2009 and was carried out on the basis of PROMT.

Built in the Russian Wikipedia (translation from English into Russian).[5][6]

In addition, the translator is built into the Yandex.Browser and automatically offers to translate text from supported foreign languages.

Supported languages

Immediately after the launch of the translator in beta mode in the spring of 2011, it was only available in three languages — English, Russian and Ukrainian, with a limit of 10,000 characters.[2]

As of May 2024, translation is available in 90 languages:

  1. Afrikaans
  2. Albanian
  3. Amharic new
  4. Arabic
  5. Armenian
  6. Azerbaijani
  7. Basque
  8. Bashkir β
  9. Belarusian
  10. Bengali β
  11. Bosnian
  12. Bulgarian
  13. Catalan
  14. Cebuano
  15. Chinese
  16. Croatian
  17. Czech
  18. Danish
  19. Dutch
  20. Elvish (Sindarin) α
  21. English
  22. Esperanto
  23. Estonian
  24. Finnish
  25. French
  26. Galician
  27. Georgian
  28. German
  29. Greek
  30. Gujarati
  31. Haitian Creole
  32. Hebrew
  33. Hill Mari β
  34. Hindi
  35. Hungarian
  36. Icelandic
  37. Indonesian
  38. Irish
  39. Italian
  40. Japanese β
  41. Javanese
  42. Kannada
  43. Kazakh
  44. Korean
  45. Kyrgyz β
  46. Latin
  47. Latvian
  48. Lithuanian
  49. Macedonian
  50. Malagasy
  51. Malay
  52. Malayalam
  53. Maltese
  54. Maori
  55. Marathi
  56. Meadow Mari β
  57. Mongolian β
  58. Nepali
  59. Norwegian
  60. Papiamento β
  61. Persian
  62. Polish
  63. Portuguese
  64. Punjabi
  65. Romanian
  66. Russian
  67. Scottish Gaelic
  68. Serbian
  69. Sinhalese
  70. Slovak
  71. Slovenian
  72. Spanish
  73. Sundanese
  74. Swahili
  75. Swedish
  76. Tagalog
  77. Tajik β
  78. Tamil β
  79. Tatar β
  80. Telugu
  81. Thai
  82. Turkish
  83. Udmurt β
  84. Ukrainian
  85. Urdu
  86. Uzbek β
  87. Vietnamese
  88. Welsh
  89. Xhosa new
  90. Yiddish

The translation direction is determined automatically. There is the possible translation of single words, whole texts and individual web pages. When you manually enter text, the system will prompt the pop-up window. There is the possibility of a two-window view of the translation and the original web pages. In addition to machine translation, there is also an accessible and complete English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary.[7] There is an app for devices based on the iOS software,[8] Windows Phone and Android. You can listen to the pronunciation of the translation and the original text (synthesised female voice).

Translations of sentences and words can be added to "Favorites" — the relevant section is below the input field.[9]

Limitations

Yandex.Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. This tool is intended to help the reader understand the general meaning of the text in a foreign language, but it does not provide accurate translations. According to the head of the service, Alexei Baitin, machine translation cannot by compared to a literary text.[10] We are constantly working on the quality of the translations, translations to other languages are being developed.

Translation methodology

According to Arkady Volozh, the mechanism of Translate is as follows:[11]

Previously, machine translation was based on "the meaning of the text" model: take any language, translate the words in the universal language of the senses, and then translate these meanings in the words of another language - and obtain the translated text. This model prevailed in the 1970s-1980s and automated in the 1990s. All translations of the 1990s built on this ideology. In the 2000s, there was a search, and it became clear: to translate the text, does not necessarily understand the meaning. Humanity has translated so much already that the probability of finding two similar network in the text in different languages is quite large. How to determine that it is the same text? Very simple. They contain many of the same words. If the document of 1,000 words dictionary 800 are a pair, then most likely, it is a translation from one language to another. And then it is already possible to break the text into paragraphs, to offer and something to do with this work. That is, the machine translations are not words, but finished pieces, the machine is capable of doing. In fact, if you think about it, this method of translation even more consistent with the way a person learns the language as a child in real life. After all, we hardly think in terms of "meaning-text", when we say, for example: "Take a pear".

In addition to the free version for users, there is a commercial API online translator (free up to 10 million characters, then paid), designed primarily for the localization of sites of Internet shops and travel companies.[12]

Features

  • the mobile app for iOS is available for the transliteration of the Arabic, Armenian, Chinese (Pinyin), Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Persian languages;[13]
  • voice input;
  • photo text translation feature (uses its own OCR (optical character recognition) technology) - in apps for mobile phones;[14]
  • the "Suggest translation" button (user patches to help improve the quality of machine translations);
  • the "Favorites" section, where you can add translations of individual words and sentences;
  • virtual keyboard.

See also

References

  1. ^ Yandex has launched an online translation service
  2. ^ a b Yandex has got its own interpreter
  3. ^ "Yandex — Technologies — Machine Translation". Yandex. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  4. ^ ""Yandex" has learned to translate the texts online". vesti.ru. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  5. ^ Yandex.Translator for Wikipedia
  6. ^ Thanks to Wikipedia appeared Yandex machine translation of texts
  7. ^ Service Yandex.Translation was released out of beta
  8. ^ Yandex.Translation — pocket translator for iPhone
  9. ^ Favourites on the web service
  10. ^ Lenta.ru: Internet: "Yandex" has launched an online translator of texts
  11. ^ Sokolov-Mitrich D. V. (2014). Yandex.Book. Real stories (10000 экз (copies) ed.). M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber. p. 368. ISBN 978-5-00057-092-0.
  12. ^ "Yandex" has started to sell services online translation
  13. ^ It's time to travel!
  14. ^ Translate photo

External links

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