Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Google is learning Chinese

Google has released its new way of using pinyin to write Chinese on computers and one sentence in the (short) review by Shanghaiist made me thinking.
If an user simultaneously logs into his Google account while typing, GP will analyze and learn his word entry habit, and overtime optimize character output to save user time. How cool is that?
That is not only very cool but also very smart. While my verdict on their newly released translation tool was not very mild, the build-in ability of the system to learn was promising for the future. It is similar for its book-scanning projects. It looks like Google has started a rather intensive Chinese class, helped by millions of users. (The same of course goes for all the other languages, but Chinese is of course a special challenge.) It would be interesting when somebody would lift the lit a bit of this interesting operation.

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