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In English, Justin Trudeau is not the premier of Canada, he is the Prime Minister. The problem with the translation is that the machine translator would need to
by microcolonel 10y ago
In English, Justin Trudeau is not the premier of Canada, he is the Prime Minister. The problem with the translation is that the machine translator would need to know specifically about Prime Ministers as a linguistic category, and know that Justin Trudeau is in that category. The Chinese side of the translation does not encode the difference.
- HappyTypist 10y agoWith enough data the Chinese side can encode <head of state> [Justin Trudeau] -> <head of state/premier> [Justin Trudeau]
- yorwba 10y agoIn fact, the Chinese text says 加拿大+總理+杜鲁多 which is Canada+<head of state>+Trudeau. That's apparently enough context for the machine translation to pick up on, producing the correct "Prime Minister" title. The only flaw in the GNMT version I can find is that 此行, "this visit" is left untranslated. (But I'm not a native Chinese speaker, so there might be more.)