Introduction to Machine Translation Professional Edition

This topic describes the Professional Edition of Alibaba Cloud Machine Translation.

Product introduction

The Machine Translation Professional Edition uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology and large datasets. It is built on a deep neural network translation (NMT) system that uses an attention mechanism. The service is trained on tens of millions of bilingual corpora and millions of professional terms for e-commerce, social networking, healthcare, and finance. This data powers four specialized translation engines for these realms.

Scenarios

• Cross-border e-commerce

• Healthcare

• Social communication

• Finance

Benefits

• Easy-to-use API operations

Standardized API encapsulation greatly reduces development effort.

• Stable and reliable

The service provides 99.99% reliability and global coverage. It can decode a single sentence in hundreds of milliseconds on a single machine.

• Superior algorithms

The service uses an advanced end-to-end deep learning framework and is trained on hundreds of millions of parallel sentence pairs.

• Multi-realm coverage

Professional translation engines for e-commerce, social networking, and healthcare meet the translation needs of specialized realms.

Supported scenarios

Supported languages

Supported languages

• Finance translation (finance): Two language pairs

• Healthcare translation (medical): Four language pairs

• Social translation (social): Six language pairs

• E-commerce translation for product titles (title) and product descriptions (description): 34 language pairs

• E-commerce communication (communication)

Language code list

When making a call, you must provide the language codes for the source and target languages. To enable auto-detection of the source language, set the source language code to 'auto'. Using incorrect language codes will cause the call to fail. For more information, see Machine Translation Language Code List.

API quickstart

For more information, see Machine Translation Professional Edition Call Guide, Batch Machine Translation Call Guide, and Asynchronous Translation Call Guide.