For example, they detect that, in Spanish, the phrase “darse cuenta” is usually translated as “realize” in English. This way, they can weigh a plethora of options for phrases presented by various different (human) translations, and select an educated guess based on the one that occurs most frequently. Google Translate makes special use of UN documents, which are translated in all six official UN languages, and thus provide ample linguistic data. That is, they look for patterns in hundreds of millions of documents that have already been translated by human translators. Google Translate, as well as other machine translators, operate on statistics rather than rules.
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