Even in an era of global networks and cheap travel, international communication still faces one great barrier: we don’t all speak the same language. But that gap is (1) as online translation services advance.
Recently (2) website Meedan translates Arabic-language news stories into English, and vice versa, and displays the two versions (3) each other. Comments in either language are (4) translated. A new site for bloggers, called Mojofiti, automatically makes posts (5) to readers in 27 languages. And Google now has a tool that will (6) allow anyone with a camera-phone to photograph, say, a German restaurant menu, send the (7) as a multimedia message to Google’s servers, and get an English translation sent back to them.
All these services ultimately (8) a technique called statistical machine translation, in which software learns to translate by using mathematics to (9) large
A. leisurely
B. instantly
C. boundlessly
D. slowly
Even in an era of global networks and cheap travel, international communication still faces one great barrier: we don’t all speak the same language. But that gap is (1) as online translation services advance.
Recently (2) website Meedan translates Arabic-language news stories into English, and vice versa, and displays the two versions (3) each other. Comments in either language are (4) translated. A new site for bloggers, called Mojofiti, automatically makes posts (5) to readers in 27 languages. And Google now has a tool that will (6) allow anyone with a camera-phone to photograph, say, a German restaurant menu, send the (7) as a multimedia message to Google’s servers, and get an English translation sent back to them.
All these services ultimately (8) a technique called statistical machine translation, in which software learns to translate by using mathematics to (9) large
A. transforming
B. narrowing
C. enlarging
D. expanding
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