Language-- the only thing separating us from other cultures and way of life around the world. Now imagine if there was a way to view any webpage in your fluent language. Combining these two ideas, IMB has created a webpage interface to do such a thing(through machine based translation). The n.Fluent from IBM automatically translates the webpage of your choice to your preferred language. Although this idea is still in developmental stage, it has been idea since 2006 and is growing ever near to being released. This very idea was started because IBM realized language was a key issue for business transactions and companies with online clients around the world.
Google is also working on creating a web based tool to translate not just web pages but search engines in general – seeing how the Google search engine only recognizes English words. One downside to this is all the work that has to be put into translating words in every language available – which is where crowd sourcing comes in. crowd sourcing English words to volunteers effectively cuts down the time it takes for one company to translate all the words themselves. Using this method, in a years time 30,000 crowd sourcing volunteers translated 36 millions words (and the volunteers are still pouring in).
http://www.research.ibm.com/social/projects_nfluent.html
http://www.ctoedge.com/content/ibm-showcases-nfluent-translation-service
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