Google Translate Receives Huge Accuracy Boost Through The Power Of Neural Networks

When Google launched Google Translate 10 years ago, the key algorithm behind the service was Phrase-Based Machine Translation. The translations provided by the service have since vastly improved due to the developments in machine intelligence, but the recent addition of neural networks has provided Google Translate with the biggest boost that it has ever received. Language is naturally phrase-based, which is why translating between languages is not as simple as plugging in the translation of words in sentences. While computers have been developed to handle phrase-based translation, there are still nuances in languages that the machines are not able to understand. Google has now deployed the Google Neural Machine Translation system, which utilizes machine learning and neural networks to provide a massive boost in translation accuracy.