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I accept your first point, but I disagree with your second - 1066 and all that notwithstanding, English is still very much a Germanic language, and grammaticall
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
I accept your first point, but I disagree with your second - 1066 and all that notwithstanding, English is still very much a Germanic language, and grammatically very different from French.
- pigscantfly 10y agoYou're right; I was arguing that French and English are more highly correlated than a pair of languages chosen uniformly at random and therefore easier for MT, but I could have made that more clear. I think the difference in accuracy between English <--> French and English <--> German does largely come down to historical academic preferences and data availability, as opposed to linguistic reasons. English <--> French vs. English <--> Mandarin (for example) is a different story.
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