But the translations were still good enough to allow English-only speakers to understand the gist of translated documents.

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The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.

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The approximately 10, 000 pages of documents seized in the villa had to be translated quickly and analyzed.

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This method involves not parsing sentences the way you learned to do in grade school but rather comparing lots of phrases with their existing translations (which Google did by downloading stacks of translated documents, like those from the United Nations).

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The process of reviewing all of the materials could take a month or longer because some documents are encrypted and written materials have to be translated from Arabic into English, officials said.

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