Content translation/Machine Translation/Google Translate/es

El soporte de traducción automática para la traducción de contenidos ha sido extendido. Además de Apertium, LingoCloud, Matxin, Yandex y Youdao, ahora añadimos el Traductor de Google a la lista de sistemas de traducción automática (MT) que están disponibles para los usuarios de Traducción de contenidos. Esto agregará soporte de traducción automática para más de 100 idiomas, incluyendo muchas lenguas nuevas que no se contemplaban en los sistemas existentes.

El Traductor de Google es proporcionado por Google – una compañía multinacional de tecnología con sede en los Estados Unidos. Varios equipos dentro de la Fundación Wikimedia y Google han colaborado para lograr un acuerdo que permitirá el uso del Traductor de Google sin comprometer la política de Wikipedia de atribución de derechos, la privacidad de nuestros usuarios y la representación de marca. Por favor, conoce más detalles del acuerdo, y cualquier pregunta que puedas tener sobre este servicio, estamos encantados de oírla.

Características clave

 * Ningún dato personal se envía al Traductor de Google. Se accederá al sistema de MT a través de los servicios en la nube de Google. El contenido del artículo (con licencia libre) se envía a los servidores de Google desde los servidores de la Fundación Wikimedia. No existe comunicación directa entre el usuario y los servicios externos y ningún dato personal (IP, nombre de usuario) se envía a los servidores de Google. El cliente que contacta a los servidores de Google es de código abierto y lo puedes revisar aquí. Ninguna parte del servicio o el código de Google será parte de la infraestructura de Wikimedia o de la base de código de Traducción de contenido. Para más detalles, véase un esquema de la configuración técnica al final de la sección.
 *  Information is returned from Google Translate under a free license.  When Google Translate is used, a translated version of Wikipedia content under a free license is obtained. Users can modify it and publish it as part of Wikipedia without conflicts with existing policies. The resulting content translated by Google Translate and the user modifications will be available under the same license that is used for the rest of the articles in Wikipedia.
 *  Benefits the wider open source translation community.  Translations obtained from Google Translate and user modifications will be publicly available. The post-edited translations are of special interest for the translation research community who can use this resource to create new translation services to support languages for which open source machine translation is not available yet. This will help developers create and improve machine translation systems.
 *  Users can disable it. Automatic translation is an optional tool in Content Translation.  Users have an option to disable it if they don't find it useful for some reason. Although many Content Translation users have requested for this translation service, each individual user may decide whether they would like to use it or not.

Google's obligations

 * Use of their Translation API key at no cost to the Wikimedia Foundation to allow volunteers on Wikimedia sites to translate articles and as many characters as needed.

Wikimedia Foundation's obligations
These APIs will be developed incrementally and results will be freely available for everyone, not just Google.
 * To provide the volunteer-edited versions of the text translated by the translation tool so that Google can improve their tool
 * No personal data of translators will be shared.
 * Just the original content to translate, its language, and translation target language will be sent in the request to Google.
 * The translations published by translators, with or without the help of machine translation services, will be provided in the form of parallel corpora by the Content Translation APIs.

Important notes

 * All content will remain licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
 * Google is not requiring any "branding" on Wikimedia Sites outside of listing Google Translate as a translation tool option in the translation interface drop-down menu
 * There is no exchange of personal information of volunteers
 * The agreement is limited to 1 year, at which time we can reevaluate our needs
 * We are free to terminate the agreement for any reason, at any time
 * Agreement is governed by U.S. law

Questions about this service
We have addressed some immediate questions about Google in this section. This is also available in the Content Translation FAQ page.

What languages are being handled by Google Translate? Are there plans to add more?
Google Translate can be used to translate into all available languages except English, which is currently not enabled to use machine translation of any kind.

How is using Google Translate different than using Apertium?
As a user of Content Translation, you will not feel any difference on the translation interface as Google Translate will display the translated content in the same way Apertium currently does for the supported language pairs.

How is machine translation being done if I choose Google Translate?
Google Translate provides an API key that allows websites and other services to use their translation system. Content Translation also uses that unique API key to access Google Cloud services for Google Translate. When a user starts translating an article, the HTML content of each section of the source article is sent to Google Translate and a translated version is obtained and displayed on the respective translation column of Content Translation. Links and references are adapted as usual and users can modify the content as required.

This process continues for all the sections of the article being translated. For better performance, the translations for consecutive sections are pre-fetched. The user can save the unpublished translation (to work on it again at a later time) or publish the article in the usual manner. The article is published on Wikipedia like any other normal article with appropriate attribution and licenses.

Here’s a diagram of the process.

Google Translate is not based on open source software. Why are we using it?
Content Translation evolved from a long-standing need to bridge the gap in the amount of content between Wikipedias in different languages. Like all other software used on Wikimedia sites, Content Translation is also open source. In this particular case as well, we are using an open source client to interact with the external service and import freely licensed content in order to help users expand our free knowledge.

To use Google Translate we are not adding any proprietary software in the Content Translation code, or on the Wikimedia websites and servers. The service is free of charge as part of Google’s offering to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Only the freely available Wikipedia article content (in segments) is sent to the Google Translate and the obtained translated content is freely usable on Wikipedia pages. The translated content can be modified by users and this data is also available publicly under a free license through the Content Translation API. This is a valuable resource made available for the community to develop open source translation services for those languages where they don't exist yet.

After studying the implications carefully, we found the fact that the content was stored previously in a closed source service does not limit the freedom of our knowledge or our software in the present or the future. We have taken special care to make sure that the content provided is freely licensed to make sure it complies with Wikipedia policies. This includes a long process for legal and technical evaluation and compliance. The summary of our agreement is also available above.

From user feedback, we have seen that machine translation support is really helpful for users and we want to support all languages in the best way. Guided by the principles of Wikimedia Foundation's resolution to support free and open source software, we will prioritize the integration of open source services whenever they are available for a language. Apertium has been a critical part of Content Translation since its inception, but currently, it only provides machine translations for about 30 of the numerous possible language combination that Wikipedia can support.

Should I be worried about my personal information when using Google Translate?
Irrespective of the service being used, you can be sure that only Wikipedia content from existing articles is sent and only freely licensed content will be added back to the translation. No personal information is sent and communication with those services happen at the server side, so they are isolated from the user device. Please refer to this diagram for more details.

What if Google Translate is the only machine translation tool available and I don't want to use it?
Machine Translation is an optional feature in Content Translation that you can easily disable at will. If more machine translation systems are added for your languages, you can choose to enable MT again and select the MT service of your choice.

Will the content translated by Google Translate be free for use in Wikipedia?
Yes. The content received from Google Translate is otherwise freely available on the web translation platform. Content Translation receives it via an API key to make it seamlessly available on the translation interface. This content can be modified by the users (if necessary) and used in Wikipedia articles under free licenses.

Can this content be used for improving machine translation systems in general?
Yes. Translations made in Content Translation are saved in our database. This information will be made publicly available for anyone to use as translation examples to improve their translation services (from University research groups, open source projects to commercial companies, anyone!). The content can be accessed via the Content Translation API. Please note, only information related to translated text is publicly available. This includes – source and translated text, source, and target language information and an identifier for the segment of text.