Comments on: Google Translation http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/ Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:21:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-1506 Steven Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:34:39 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-1506 <p>the way the new translators are set up they dont go word for word but rather phrase by phrase to get better accuracy….correct?</p> <p>It seems google is flexing its muscles and is in early stages of taking the phrase by phrase over the top with some intense compilation.</p> <p>My guess is the want to be capable of translating entire websites instantly and fluently which would unite the whole world to all the info on the internet and not just whats in your language. </p> the way the new translators are set up they dont go word for word but rather phrase by phrase to get better accuracy….correct?

It seems google is flexing its muscles and is in early stages of taking the phrase by phrase over the top with some intense compilation.

My guess is the want to be capable of translating entire websites instantly and fluently which would unite the whole world to all the info on the internet and not just whats in your language.

]]> By: justine http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-154 justine Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:29:16 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-154 <p>Link Tip</p> <p><a href='http://dict.leo.org/' rel='nofollow'>http://dict.leo.org/</a> </p> Link Tip

http://dict.leo.org/

]]> By: nunzio http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-153 nunzio Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:25:08 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-153 <p>Google Sprachtool – Test 1</p> <p>Testsatz: „Es war so schön mit dir. Wann werden wir uns wiedersehen?“</p> <p>Die Übersetzung: “It was with you when we will so beautifully see itself again?“</p> <p>Die Gegenprobe: „Es war mit Ihnen, wenn wir so schön uns wieder sehen?“</p> <p>8 mistakes in one sentence, wow! </p> Google Sprachtool – Test 1

Testsatz: „Es war so schön mit dir. Wann werden wir uns wiedersehen?“

Die Übersetzung: “It was with you when we will so beautifully see itself again?“

Die Gegenprobe: „Es war mit Ihnen, wenn wir so schön uns wieder sehen?“

8 mistakes in one sentence, wow!

]]> By: Jaak Henno http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-144 Jaak Henno Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:02:23 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-144 <p>A rather classical test of MT systems is double translation, e.g. english-german-back to english; with Google website this is very easy to implement, two-way translation is provided for all languages. In the following are results of copy-paste two-way translations from a sentence from the same page <a href='http://www.google.com/language_tools' rel='nofollow'>http://www.google.com/language_tools</a> (only European languages were used) - can you tell what was the original sentence?</p> <p>english-language1-english:<br /> Adjust the homepage Google, the announcements and the keys to announcement in your preselected language over our preference side.</p> <p>english-language2-english:<br /> Rules the homepage of Google, the messages and the keys to exposure in your language selected via our page of preferences. </p> <p>english-language3-english:<br /> Fix the homepage of Google, the messages, and the bellboys to the exhibition in its language selected via our page of the preferences. </p> <p>So - “Adjust the homepage Google, the messages and the bellboys to the exhibition in its language selected via our page of preferences”. Clear? </p> A rather classical test of MT systems is double translation, e.g. english-german-back to english; with Google website this is very easy to implement, two-way translation is provided for all languages. In the following are results of copy-paste two-way translations from a sentence from the same page http://www.google.com/language_tools (only European languages were used) – can you tell what was the original sentence?

english-language1-english:
Adjust the homepage Google, the announcements and the keys to announcement in your preselected language over our preference side.

english-language2-english:
Rules the homepage of Google, the messages and the keys to exposure in your language selected via our page of preferences.

english-language3-english:
Fix the homepage of Google, the messages, and the bellboys to the exhibition in its language selected via our page of the preferences.

So – “Adjust the homepage Google, the messages and the bellboys to the exhibition in its language selected via our page of preferences”. Clear?

]]> By: mfagan http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-92 mfagan Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:27:54 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-92 <p>Interesting. The whole idea of using anything other than humans to compare the quality of translations seems flawed to me.. </p> Interesting. The whole idea of using anything other than humans to compare the quality of translations seems flawed to me..

]]> By: wolfgang http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-91 wolfgang Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:22:56 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-91 <p>Google hired one of the most famous MT experts, Franz-Josef Och (he was at RWTH Aachen before). They are working on statistical machine translation SMT. One of Google’s strong point in it is that they have massive computer power. For SMT to work, you need a lot of parallel text (source and translation) to train the engine. Note that the NIST score probably favours SMT in comparison to rule based systems like Systran (RBMT). </p> Google hired one of the most famous MT experts, Franz-Josef Och (he was at RWTH Aachen before). They are working on statistical machine translation SMT. One of Google’s strong point in it is that they have massive computer power. For SMT to work, you need a lot of parallel text (source and translation) to train the engine. Note that the NIST score probably favours SMT in comparison to rule based systems like Systran (RBMT).

]]> By: mara http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-82 mara Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:15:44 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-82 <p>fiecare om are dreptul la viata<br /> toti oamenii sunt egali in drepturi<br /> libertatea este atunci cand poti face orice lucru care nu ii deranjezi pe ceilalti </p> fiecare om are dreptul la viata
toti oamenii sunt egali in drepturi
libertatea este atunci cand poti face orice lucru care nu ii deranjezi pe ceilalti

]]> By: mfagan http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-70 mfagan Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:34:02 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-70 <p>I figure google is/has moved all language translation to their own software, but of course I could be wrong</p> <p>thanks for the info though </p> I figure google is/has moved all language translation to their own software, but of course I could be wrong

thanks for the info though

]]> By: Fred http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-69 Fred Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:58:37 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-69 <p>It looks like the Google Version of Japanese-English Translation is fooled by variety of Japanese Text that works fine with</p> <p>Excel.co.jp (Fujitsu Ltd OEM)<br /> Yahoo.co.jp/honyahku (systran)</p> <p>Any clue what is going on? Gievn that MT is very different than translation who do you suggest is working with google on this?</p> <p>Is it possible that they have Japanese Subconractor (maybe someone like Fujitsu that has a 20% leading share of the Japanese Market) ? </p> It looks like the Google Version of Japanese-English Translation is fooled by variety of Japanese Text that works fine with

Excel.co.jp (Fujitsu Ltd OEM)
Yahoo.co.jp/honyahku (systran)

Any clue what is going on? Gievn that MT is very different than translation who do you suggest is working with google on this?

Is it possible that they have Japanese Subconractor (maybe someone like Fujitsu that has a 20% leading share of the Japanese Market) ?

]]> By: Mattt http://faganm.com/blog/2005/10/10/744/#comment-67 Mattt Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:16:52 +0000 http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/10/10/744/#comment-67 <p>Arabic? That sounds like terrorist talk to me, Mike. Are you against Freedom? Why don’t you and John Kerry take your communist loving translation software and go find some other country to ruin? </p> Arabic? That sounds like terrorist talk to me, Mike. Are you against Freedom? Why don’t you and John Kerry take your communist loving translation software and go find some other country to ruin?

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