A better automatic translator

[kowalskil]

Those interested in automatic translators will probably find this article useful:

How Google Translate works - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

It is about how Google Translate works, and why it usually outperforms other automatic translators. To verify this claim, I translated a piece from English to Russian. The result was not perfect but it was very good. Here is what to do:

1) Go to http://translate.google.com/
2) Specify languages, for example, English --> Russian
3) Paste (or type) the text to be translated.
4) Click on the “translate” button

The translated text will appear at once. You can just read it or cut-and-paste it into another document.

Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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[beer good]

Google Translate would be the correct address.

 

[Peder]

Thanks for the article. I have long been interested in computers and artificial intelligence.
In machine translation, it seems that translations continually improve but the human comments never change.
Perhaps it would be fun to hear humans and GoogleTranslate hurling insults at each another. In several languages, no less!
It could be a fun variant of the Turing test -- can a human think of an insult that has not been uttered before and can't be found by GoogleTranslate?
But, enough!

 

[pontalba]

Perhaps it would be fun to hear humans and GoogleTranslate hurling insults at each another. In several languages, no less!
It could be a fun variant of the Turing test -- can a human think of an insult that has not been uttered before and can't be found by GoogleTranslate?
But, enough!

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Oh, now that would be fun! Imagination run amok!

 

[sparkchaser]

Google Translate would be the correct address.

Aye.

http://translate.reference.com isn't too bad and neither is http://www.translate.eu but I think Google Translate is the best of the ones I have tried so far although I have noticed with Google Translate that it sometimes translates kein/keine/keinen as "a" instead of the negation so beware.

 

[sparkchaser]

Thanks for the article. I have long been interested in computers and artificial intelligence.
In machine translation, it seems that translations continually improve but the human comments never change.
Perhaps it would be fun to hear humans and GoogleTranslate hurling insults at each another. In several languages, no less!
It could be a fun variant of the Turing test -- can a human think of an insult that has not been uttered before and can't be found by GoogleTranslate?
But, enough!

It's been done already but I can't find the link.

 

[beer good]

It's been done already but I can't find the link.

Lost in Translation - Cross-language computer translation ?

 

[sparkchaser]

That wasn't it. Still cool though. Also interesting to learn about the translate API. I need to look into that more.

Looks like if I went to Portugal or Brazil armed with Google Translate, they would know what I want.

 

[Landslide]

Looks like if I went to Portugal or Brazil armed with Google Translate, they would know what I want.

I'd leave the monkey part out...

 

[sparkchaser]

Noted.