DeepL Translator

DeepL Translator
Type of site
 Machine translation
Website deepl.com/translator
Launched August 2017 (2017-08)
Current status Active

DeepL Translator is a translation service launched in August 2017 by DeepL GmbH, a start up company backed up by Linguee. The service currently supports translations between seven major European languages.[1] It was shown that DeepL translations sounded a bit more natural to humans compared to other major translation services such as Google Translate, Microsoft Translator and Facebook,[2][3][4] using BLEU to assess the translation quality against the competitors.[5] Especially the translation results are more precise and nuanced at a speed equal to that of its competitors.[6]

Technology

The service uses convolutional neural networks[7] built on the Linguee database with a proprietary approach which is not made public or published but reported that it uses some sort of attention mechanism.[8] It is reported that company uses a 5 Petaflops machine.[9]

Later, DeepL introduced a paid ″Pro″ version of the service, which removes some limits of the website translator and offers an API, which developers can use to integrate the translation service into their products.[10]

Privacy

Both DeepL Pro and DeepL Translator (free) prohibit translating "texts containing personal data of any kind".[11] Unlike the freemium version, the Pro version advertises that it does not store the texts being translated.[10]

The DeepL website uses Google Analytics as well as their own HTTP cookies to re-identify users and associate them with pseudonymous user profiles.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Wagner, Janet (20 March 2018). "DeepL Language Translator Expands with Pro Edition and RESTful API". ProgrammableWeb.
  2. ↑ "New online translator "more powerful than Google"". 2017-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Microsoft Translator is world class fast, but supercomputer DeepL Translator wins out". 2017-09-01.
  4. ↑ Börteçin, Ege (2018-01-22). "Interview A Conversation on AI and Data Science: Semantics to Machine Learning".
  5. ↑ "Linguee's Founder Launches DeepL in Attempt to Challenge Google Translate". 2017-08-30.
  6. ↑ Coldewey, Devin (2017-08-29). "DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  7. ↑ "DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  8. ↑ Yitaek, Hwang (2017-11-06). "DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning". iotforall.com. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  9. ↑ Feldman, Michael (2017-08-31). "Startup Launches Language Translator That Taps into Five-Petaflop Supercomputer". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  10. 1 2 "DeepL Pro". www.deepl.com. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  11. 1 2 "Privacy Policy". DeepL. Retrieved 16 June 2018.


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