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amir haghighi
amir haghighi

Reputation: 31

The old version of Google Translate

I need the old version of Google Translate (the statistical model, the version before 2016) for my research, I was wondering if there any way to access the old version?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4031

Answers (3)

Adam Bittlingmayer
Adam Bittlingmayer

Reputation: 1277

See the update below

Original answer

Yes, as of 2020, Google Translate statistical machine translation still available as phrase-based machine translation.

https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/translating-text

Using the model parameter

You can specify which model to use for translation by using the model query parameter. Specify base to use the PBMT model, and nmt to use the NMT model. If you specify the NMT model in your request and the requested language translation pair is not supported for the NMT model, then the PBMT model is used.

There are similar options for the Microsoft API and the undocumented Google APIs.

My guess is that there are no statistical systems available for newly added language pairs - a major advantage of massive multilingual models is not having to train or deploy separate systems for the long tail.

Update

No, Google ended statistical machine translation in August 2021.

https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/release-notes#August_02_2021

August 02, 2021

changed
Removed the Phrase-Based Machine Translation (PBMT) model. For requests that specify the PBMT model, Cloud Translation uses the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model instead.

https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/translating-text#model

Note: Translation previously offered a Phrase-Based Machine Translation (PBMT) model (also known as the base model). If you specify that model for translations, Translation uses the NMT model instead.

Upvotes: 2

Oleh Chepil
Oleh Chepil

Reputation: 1

You can try to check Google Translate in the Web Archive.

Upvotes: 0

Jindřich
Jindřich

Reputation: 11250

I doubt it is running somewhere. The statistical system is a complicated pipeline that is expensive to run and difficult to maintain.

You can try contacting someone from Google Research who works on MT (just have a look at papers on arXiv, the authors have contact emails there) if they can run it for you.

Alternatively, you can build your own Moses system, it is an open-source implementation of statistical MT, so the results should be similar to what was Google Translate (judging from the WMT competitions results before 2016).

Upvotes: 0

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