Google is working on a translation platform
The internet giant Google is planning a web platform called «Google Translation Center,» through which human experts can be hired when translation services are needed.
Internet giant Google is planning a web platform called "Google Translation Center", which can be used to hire human experts when translations are required. Apparently, the service will allow users to upload documents and request translations into one of over 40 languages from registered translators. Volunteers will be able to offer their services free of charge, but professionals will of course also be able to offer their services for a fee. Google would apparently not be involved in the processing of any payments, as Cnet reports. The results of translation work would be stored in a Google database. This means that the offer could have a second purpose in addition to providing access to professional translation services. "There is the research field of statistical machine translation," explains Matthew W. Crocker, professor at the Institute for Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University, in an interview with Pressetext. Such systems could be significantly improved with a large stock of sample texts.
