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Farsi Added to Google Translate

Posted by Elise Ackerman on June 19th, 2009 at 12:42 am | Categorized as Tech | Tagged as

Google added Farsi to its translation service Thursday night, giving Iranians who are protesting what they claim was a rigged national election an additional tool to communicate directly with the rest of the world.
Farsi is the forty-second language to be added to Google Translate.
Franz Och, the principal scientist on the project, warned in a blog post that Farsi was added quickly and that the service would likely be imperfect.
Google began its machine translation initiative six years ago.
The Mountain View advertising giant relies on a method in which computers “learn” new languages by comparing identical texts written in different languages. This works well when there is lots of material available, for example for French or Spanish and less well for languages like Farsi.
Still, Ochs is hopeful the service will work well enough to help out journalists looking for information that is only available in Farsi. It will also help Iranians make sense of documents written in foreign languages. “Google Translate is helping break down the language barrier,” he said.

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5 Responses to “Farsi Added to Google Translate”

  1. AMIRI says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    نظر به این که آخرین جلسه کلاس درس ژئوشیمی آلی در تاریخ 27/3/88 (صبح تا عصر) برگزار خواهد شد، از تمامی دانشجویان گرامی این درس خواسته می شود تا نسبت به تهیه فایل پاورپوینت سمینار خود اقدام نمایند. در این تاریخ همه دانشجویان موظف به ارائه سمینار خود بوده و در آخر نیز فایل سمینار خود را می بایست تحویل دهند. همچنین در صورت صلاحدید، آزمون این درس نیز در همین روز برگزار خواهد شد. شایسته است کلیه دوستان آمادگی لازم را داشته باشند.

  2. vahoman says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    I like to have news and events in farsi.thaks

  3. Sean says:
    June 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 am

    Farsi is the wrong way for appointing Persian Language in English.
    The English name for the language of the people of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan is “Persian”.

    “Farsi” is the Persian word for this language. When we are writing in English we better use every word in English.

  4. mohsen says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    gprs free
    persian language

  5. Carmen.. says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Wie kan en wil dit vertalen?
    Nederlands of Engels…dank je wel.

    akhe ina ke too aXa didi shekleshoon holandie pesar joon? malezi am. albatte khob hichkiam too axa maleziE nis ghiafash…. belakhare yejayi peida kardam az iran zadam biroon;) daram design mikhoonam inja…

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