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Language differences remain a barrier for the global sharing of knowledge, and computers cannot process human language accurately. The more you learn at Duolingo, the more knowledge you make...
According to Luis von Ahn, "it is estimated that there are over 1 billion people learning a foreign language. So, the site that they’ve been working on, Duolingo, will be a 100% free language...
Duolingo gives you foreign language phrases from actual pages around the web. It only gives you phrases that match up with your level – like beginner, intermediate and advanced. You then go to...
The very ambitious goal of Duolingo is to crowdsource the translation of the entire internet into many different languages.It’s a little similar to the recaptcha idea: language learners are...
In order to quality check each translation, each sentence is translated by multiple people. People actually vote on which translation is best, and Duolingo throws in some wrong translations in...
Duolingo is “much more ambitious,” Luis von Ahn said in an interview . “Here we have to create a very compelling Web site for people to come back to. In the case of reCAPTCHA, people were forced...
CMU announced Tuesday that Duolingo, a language translation website created by computer scientists Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, has received a $3.3 million round of funding from New...
“Duolingo leverages the brain power of millions of people who are currently learning a new language to help translate the web,” Von Ahn told WebProNews, which says that a beta version of the site...
If it works, Duolingo could be one of the best examples ever of a win-win scenario. The site teaches languages (English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese, and soon Italian and Chinese) for...
Depending on their skill level, they'll get anything from complex work to simple phrases like "Where is the library?," with the option to see possible matches if they aren't...
Luis von Ahn wants to translate the web — all of it. To call him ambitious is an understatement. In a TED Talk that was originally uploaded to YouTube in April 2011, von Ahn introduced Duolingo, a crowdsourced translation project, and boldly proclaimed that with one million users, the site could help to convert the entirety of Wikipedia into Spanish in 80 hours. Free of charge. Even with a slightly more modest prediction of 100,000 users, the task would be completed within five weeks. What von Ahn, an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was proposing, and what Duolingo is now beginning to offer in a private beta, is a crowdsourced translation service that provides every volunteer with a service of their own. What he envisions is a tool that will not just revolutionize the Internet, but education itself.
If you are learning, or want to learn, a foreign language, or you have been frustrated in the past by websites that would be useful... if only they were in a language you spoke, the answer to both...
Duolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world will work together to translate the internet and learn a new language at the same time. All for...
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This video explains Duolingo's premise in more detail. Pennsylvania-based Duolingo is a site that lets consumers learn a new language for free while helping to translate the web.
Aside from the promise of free language instruction, it isn't clear how Duolingo may entice users. But many of von Ahn's past projects have involved casual games designed to encourage...
Duolingo uses native speaker skills to have you translate foreign sentences into your own language. This is a sensible approach which is also used in translation sciences and interpreting –...
A recently launched internet project called Duolingo. Branded by its creators as "the next chapter in human computation", the goal is to translate vast amounts of web content into a...
Duolingo, a service that aims to translate internet content into multiple languages while teaching users foreign words and grammar, is scheduled to launch today.
For Duolingo to work well, it needs a huge crowd of learners. The more proficient they become, the greater the chances of accurate translations. In Duolingo, a large piece of text is broken into...
The setup seems to be working. Duolingo emerged from its private beta this week with more than 125,000 active users who have so far translated 75 million sentences from Wikipedia and other online...
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