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.
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Type of site | Machine translation |
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| Owner | Naver Corporation |
| URL | papago |
| Current status | Active |
Features edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
WSD screen edit
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 edit
Using real-time exchange rate information, the current exchange rate is calculated along with the translation result.[6]
Supported languages edit
The following languages are supported in Naver Papago.
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- English
- French
- German
- Hindi (browser only)
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese (browser only)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Arabic
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Naver Launches Papago Translation App". Chosun. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "South Korea's Naver launches official version of AI translator 'Papago'". The Nation. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "인터넷 없어도 '파파고' 쓸 수 있다". news.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ 홍지인 (2020-11-04). "네이버 파파고, 이미지 '바로번역' 기능 출시". 연합뉴스 (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-03-20.
- ^ 김, 세형 기자 (2020-11-04). "네이버 파파고, 이미지 '바로번역' 기능 선보여". 스포츠조선 (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ 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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