Translation industry has come to an era when machines are taking a lot of works for humans.
Artificial intelligence and deep learning are the trends in the world of machine translation. Let’s exam some of the best online Chinese translation platforms.
BAIDU TRANSLATOR
“Baidu Translation is based on the trendy deep learning technology, a completely different method, the most popular open source machine translation system. Deep Learning technology performs much better than phrase-based machine translation”. The machine translation engine processes around 100 million requests every day. Today it also supports optical character recognition (OCR), and it can also “translate” objects.
Baidu Translator currently supports the translation of 28 languages. Baidu has made significant breakthroughs in the acquisition of massive translation knowledge, translation model, multilingual translation technology and other aspects, and responded to massive, complex and diverse translation requests on the Internet in a timely and accurate manner. It has developed an online translation system that integrates deep learning with multiple mainstream translation models, as well as technologies such as “pivot language” translation, leading the industry.
YOUDAO TRANSLATOR
Youdao is a branch by NetEase – a major Web services giant in China.
Youdao had launched Youdao Cloud Notes, Youdao dictionary, HuiHui (meaning “affordable”) Assistant, and Youdao Tuiguang (meaning “promotion”). Youdao uses searching engine product as a starting point, goes further in the areas of large-scale data storage. Its technological accumulation is derived from language translation application services for years developing individual cloud applications, online dictionary products, and tech-services such as e-commerce.
Youdao Translator is a team under the Youdao business umbrella. Unlike Youdao, which is oriented towards education and learning, Youdao Translator is especially dedicated to solving problems encountered by users in their daily life. In contrast, the main function of Youdao dictionary is to solve the problem of interpretation of single words and phrases, focusing on in-depth learning and understanding, while Youdao Translator focuses on the translation of whole sentences and paragraphs to meet the application-oriented needs of users.
Youdao Machine translation service does not translate rich text like HTML. It accepts plain text content and outputs plain text translation. For Chinese text, this is not possible because of non-trivial tokenization of sentence to words. Hence, you will receive the translations only in plain text, and all links, references etc. will have to be added manually after translation.
GOOGLE TRANSLATOR
This is the tool that most of you had had experience with.
Google Translator can be used in two ways. One is to enter the Google translation page, the need to translate the web page address input translation box, click the translation will be displayed in the current window after the translated page. Another way is to enter the address directly into the Google browser and the browser will automatically remind you if you want to translate it into Chinese. Both methods are very convenient and the translation speed is very fast. The accuracy is also quite good (figure 1). At present, Google translation supports as many as 57 languages, and it adopts the “statistical machine translation” technology from worldwide samples. The overall level of Google machine translation is undoubtedly in the leading position in the world.