Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

 The Unofficial Google Translate API Enhancing communication between people around the world have become of a special importance over the last decade or so due to the unparalleled growth in globalization, international eCommerce, social networks, internet usage, and other services. Thus, the demand for a tool that is capable of removing language barriers have increased and led to the development of cloud translation services (a.k.a. Translation APIs). There are several translation APIs, but the giant, Google Translate , is what I will be talking about in this post. In 2016, Google translated more than 100 billion words a day; and after 10 years of service, more than 500 million people were using Google Translate . While I am not a translation expert and prefer to use dictionary.com to get an accurate definition of individual words, I have used Google Translate in the past to get a list of synonyms for a word (in English or Arabic) or for quickly translating a long article that I ...