Arabian Business: Google launches new Arabic translation tool

By Andy Sambidge

Google on Thursday announced the launch of the Google Translator Toolkit, an editor that helps translators create Arabic versions of English web pages.

The Toolkit works by providing the user with a automatically translated version of any page - the translator can then correct and improve the translation, check corrections with Google's online dictionary, and publish new web pages to quickly produce Arabic-language versions of web content.

The company said the quality of the translations suggested by the Toolkit would improve over time, as it learns from translators' improvements.