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Briefing
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- Official Launch – Naver launched Papago AI translation service, expanding on software’s capabilities and introducing PC version of app
- Mobile-First – Initially introduced as mobile beta app in August 2016
- Increased Words – Can handle 500 words per translation query from 200 in beta mode, similar to Google Translate
- Improved Accuracy – Switched to new artificial intelligence technique called Neural Machine Translation (NMT) from previous phrase-based translation, improving accuracy to 60% from 30% using past algorithm, aiming for 80% accuracy by 2019
- Supported Languages – NMT service available for Korean, English, and simplified Chinese, with phrase-based translation used for Japanese, Spanish and French
- Expansion – Plans to add new languages such as Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, and Thai by end of 2017
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