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Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by rbonvall »

justincormack wrote: post #29
mjn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

No doubt would be confused by "peru is the Spanish for turkey" as well...

Nitpick: peru is the Portuguese for turkey. In Spanish it is "pavo".

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by epochwolf »

nknighthb wrote: post #10
mjn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

Now I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.

Bad idea. Star Trek stories are horrid quality compared to Star Wars.[1] Do Star Wars to Star Trek. ;)

1: Based on my own experience. I've read at least 50% of the available Star Trek books and 75% of Star Wars. I've got maybe four Star Trek books I've liked and dozens of Star Wars ones.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by TillE »

tomp wrote: post #13

Also, please note that "lorem" is translated as "China", and "ipsum" is translated as "footbal". At least for me.

It's just nonsense. The actual translation of "football" will be obvious once you see it:

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediludium

Pediludium, literally "foot-game". And ipsum means "itself":

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ipsum

Google really needed to seed their Latin translator with a basic dictionary before letting it pick up crap on the internet.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by mkehrt »

nknighthb wrote: post #10
mjn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

Now I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.

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