What is Google Translate?
Google Translate is a third-party service provided by Google that does all translations directly and dynamically. By detecting patterns in documents already translated by human translators, Google Translate can intelligently guess what a suitable translation should be. This process of finding patterns in large amounts of text is called “statistical machine translation.” Since translations are machine-generated, not all translations will be perfect. The more humanly translated documents Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the quality of the translation will be. This is why translation accuracy varies between languages.
Disclaimer
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) website provides the “Google Translate” option to help you read the website in languages other than English. For these translations, reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation. However, no machine translation is perfect and is not intended to replace human translators. These translations are provided as a service to users of the VITA website and are provided “as is”. No warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, is given as to the accuracy, reliability or correctness of any of these translations made from English into any other language. Some content (such as images, videos, Flash, etc.) may not be translated accurately due to translation software limitations.
Any discrepancies or differences created in the translation of this content from English to another language are not binding and have no legal effect for compliance, enforcement, or any other purpose. If any questions arise regarding the accuracy of the information contained in these translations, please refer to the English version of the website.
If you have any questions about Google Translate, please visit the Google Translate website.
If you have problems with Google Translate, please visit http://translate.google.com/support/.
