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Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology

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Re: Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology

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Post by saagarjha »

> some customers tell us that when they use the service to translate company-authored content like product documentation, website strings, functional content, knowledge bases, and help pages

Generally, applying automatic translation to content like this seems to produce poor output, at least in my experience. Usually, I prefer running content through a translator myself instead of relying on the “translation” to broken English, without any supporting context in the source language, that is sometimes provided.

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Post by angerbot »

vermilingua wrote: post #4
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #2

updated: looks like aws reintent happening.

We have four Amazon services on the front page of HN at time of posting, and another three on page 2. Prolific week for Amazon, or is this a targeted campaign?

Their conference is on as we speak so, the former?

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Post by rstupek »

vermilingua wrote: post #4
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #2

updated: looks like aws reintent happening.

We have four Amazon services on the front page of HN at time of posting, and another three on page 2. Prolific week for Amazon, or is this a targeted campaign?

AWS re:invent is going on which explains why a lot of amazon postings are on the site. It's their yearly conference where they announce all their new features

Re: Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology

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Post by citilife »

I wonder if this would be really good for expanding acronyms in a given context or for keeping proper nouns accurate. For instance "RDS" to "Relation Data Store". This is something that impacts systems ranging from Ruby on Rails plural to singular system (I forget what is used), you can define irregulars essentially.

It's nice that you can now do the same for the translation.

This may help conversation systems[1], especially within an organization.

[1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/eno-ai-eq-3d939a2f6a7b

Re: Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology

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Post by wallflower »

I know some professional translators who specialize in cleaning up machine-generated translations so that they have that 'native speaker' quality (Yes, including DeepL). I doubt Amazon Translate will help that much, if the goal is to reduce the use of a native speaker to clean up the generated translation.

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Post by longerthoughts »

rstupek wrote: post #6
vermilingua wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have four Amazon services on the front page of HN at time of posting, and another three on page 2. Prolific week for Amazon, or is this a targeted campaign?

AWS re:invent is going on which explains why a lot of amazon postings are on the site. It's their yearly conference where they announce all their new features

That explains why there are a lot of Amazon postings on the site, not why the mentioned account is exclusively used to promote Amazon announcements.
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