用互联网搜索智能学英语
微软公司(Microsoft Corp.)在北京的研究人员正在使用从网上搜集的数据,来完善一个在线英-汉辞典与语言练习服务。这种技术有朝一日可能会被用在类似的工具当中,供任何人学习任何语言使用。
这个服务名为“英库”(字面意为“英语文库”,网址:www.engkoo.com PR=6,目前界面支持中英文2种语言),其核心是专业机构生产的翻译数据,由微软从已发行辞书等渠道获得,其使用获得了相关出版机构的许可。在英库的数据库里,这些内容同微软经由其他渠道(比如在网上寻找中英双语网站)获得的数据混合在一起。微软的机器把中文版和英文版网站及其段落、句子和单词进行匹配,然后对由此形成的译文进行质量排行,并存档。英库入围了今年的“亚洲创新奖”(Asian Innovation Awards)。
Microsoft Corp. researchers in Beijing are using data mined from the Web to enhance an online Chinese-English dictionary and language-practice service, a technique that could one day be used in similar tools for anyone learning any language.
Engkoo, at www.engkoo.com, is written in Chinese with two characters meaning ‘English’ and ‘vault.’ It has a core of professionally produced translation data that Microsoft draws from sources such as existing dictionaries, which are used under licenses from their publishers. In Engkoo’s database, that content is mixed with data that Microsoft finds through other means, including sweeping the Web for sites with parallel Chinese and English versions. Microsoft machines align the two websites — followed by their paragraphs, sentences and individual words — then assign a quality ranking to the resulting translation and file it away. Engkoo is a finalist in this year’s Asian Innovation Awards.
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