Yandex.Translate (previously Yandex.Translation)

Yandex.Translate

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Yandex.Translate

Type of site	Statistical machine translation, Neural machine translation
Available in	96 languages, see features Interface: English, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
Owner	Yandex
Website	translate.yandex.com (in English) translate.yandex.ru (in Russian) ceviri.yandex.com.tr (in Turkish) translate.yandex.ua (in Ukrainian)
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	March 22, 2011; 8 years ago[1][2]
Current status	Active

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 single-word translations 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.

In September 2017, Yandex.Translate switched to a hybrid approach incorporating both statistical machine translation and neural machine translationmodels.^[5]

The translation page first appeared in 2009^{[citation needed]}, utilizing PROMT, and was also built into Yandex Browser itself, to assist in translation for websites.

This service is also built into the Russian Wikipedia to provide translation services from English to Russian.^[6][7]

Contents

• 1Supported languages
• 2Limitations
• 3Translation methodology
• 4Features
• 5See also
• 6References
• 7External links

Supported languages[edit]

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 November 2019, translation is available in 96 languages:

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

The translation direction is determined automatically. It is possible to translate words, sentences, or web pages if needed. There is also the option to view both the translation and the original at the same time in a two-window view. In addition to machine translation, there is also an accessible and complete English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary.^[8] There is an app for devices based on the iOS software,^[9] Windows Phone and Android. You can listen to the pronunciation of the translation and the original text using a text to speech converter built in.

Translations of sentences and words can be stored to a "Favorites" section located below the input field.

Limitations[edit]

Yandex.Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. When the online service was first introduced, the head of Yandex.Translate, Alexei Baitin, stated that although machine translation cannot be compared to a literary text, the translations produced by the system can provide a convenient option for understanding the general meaning of the text in a foreign language.^[10]

Translation methodology[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Apertium
• Babel Fish (discontinued; redirects to main Yahoo! site)
• Comparison of machine translation applications
• GoldenDict
• Google Translate
• Jollo (discontinued)
• Microsoft Translator
• PROMT
• StarDict
• SYSTRAN
• WikiBhasha

References[edit]

1. ^ Yandex has launched an online translation service
2. ^ Jump up to:^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. ^ "One model is better than two. Yandex.Translate launches a hybrid machine translation system". Yandex Blog. Retrieved 3 October2019.
6. ^ Yandex.Translator for Wikipedia
7. ^ Thanks to Wikipedia appeared Yandex machine translation of texts
8. ^ Service Yandex.Translation was released out of beta
9. ^ Yandex.Translation — pocket translator for iPhone
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[edit]

• Yandex.Translate (in English)

show v t e Yandex

Categories: 

• Yandex
• Machine translation software
• Natural language processing software
• Products introduced in 2011
• Russian websites
• Translation websites

source https://tessrijogo.blogspot.com/2019/11/yandextranslate-previously.html