Naver Papago

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Naver Papago
Type of site
Machine translation
OwnerNaver Corporation
URLpapago.naver.com
Current statusActive

Naver Papago (Hangul: 네이버 파파고), shortened to Papago and stylized as papago, is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Naver Corporation. The name "Papago" comes from the Esperanto word for "parrot", Esperanto being a constructed language.

Features

Papago ended its trial phase and officially launched on July 19, 2017, with translation options for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, and French.[1] It was only available as a smartphone app but it has since launched its own website and has expanded to other languages.[2]

From November 2019, Papago was changed to be available without Internet service.[3]

In 2020, the image translation function was introduced, and text in photos can be translated directly. It supports a total of six languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai.[4]

Main functions

  • 1:1 Conversation Mode: An interactive translation, translated through speech recognition.
  • Image Translation: The portion of a photo in a gallery or the characters in a newly photographed picture is specified and translated into text. It is available in six languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai.[5]

Special functions

WSD screen

If a homonym is detected in a sentence to be translated, the translator presents various interpretations for a homograph found in an input sentence. Users can choose a specific meaning and receive the retranslated sentence associated with their selected sense. Each sense is represented as a clear image on the translation result screen.[6]

Automatic conversion of exchange rate

Using real-time exchange rate information, the current exchange rate is calculated along with the translation result.[6]

Supported languages

The following languages are supported in Naver Papago.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Naver Launches Papago Translation App". Chosun. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  2. ^ "South Korea's Naver launches official version of AI translator 'Papago'". The Nation. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  3. ^ "인터넷 없어도 '파파고' 쓸 수 있다". news.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  4. ^ 홍지인 (2020-11-04). "네이버 파파고, 이미지 '바로번역' 기능 출시". 연합뉴스 (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  5. ^ 김, 세형 기자 (2020-11-04). "네이버 파파고, 이미지 '바로번역' 기능 선보여". 스포츠조선 (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  6. ^ a b Lee, Hyoung-Gyu; Kim, Jun-Seok; Shin, Joong-Hwi; Lee, Jaesong; Quan, Ying-Xiu; Jeong, Young-Seob (2016). "papago: A Machine Translation Service with Word Sense Disambiguation and Currency Conversion" (PDF). ACL Anthology.

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