University Research Program for Google Translate

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Overview

The University Research Program for Google Translate provides researchers, in the field of automatic machine translation, tools to help compare and contrast with, and build on top of, Google's statistical machine translation system.

Participation in the program will allow researchers programmatic access to Google's translation service.

A translation request returns either:

• A single translation, the highest scoring output of Google Translate
• As above but with detailed word alignment information
• A list of the n-best translations with detailed scoring information

These options can support research into n-best reranking (machine learning), additional translation components, system combinations, and who knows what else researchers may come up with.

The program currently supports translations between the following language pairs:

• English <=> Arabic
• English <=> Chinese
• English <=> Russian

Restrictions

This research program is being made available to members of the academic community. Each applicant must review and adhere to the full terms, which include the following restrictions:

• The research program is for research purposes only. Commercial use is strictly forbidden.
• Participants may submit no more than 1000 translation requests per day. If your project requires more daily throughput, let us know in your proposal and we'll do our best to accommodate you.
• Publications presenting research that was done using resources provided by this program must include attribution to Google for providing those resources.
• The program may be used only by registered researchers and their teams, and access may not be shared with others.

Before registering for the Google Search research program, you must read and agree to the full Terms of Use. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the terms of the program before submitting your application.

Registration

If you are interested in participating, we'd love to hear from you. Please take a moment to submit a proposal, briefly describing the project or type of projects you intend to work on.

Documentation

Once you've become a registered participant of the University Research Program for Google Translate, we encourage you to check out the documentation.

Forum

If you still need help, or more information, please check out our Google Group, Google Research Translate Program, which serves as a discussion forum for this program.