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FYI, google translate for Japanese is pretty unreliable for lone uncommon words. It seems to rely heavily on internet-trained ML, and does pretty well with phra
by fenomas 7y ago
FYI, google translate for Japanese is pretty unreliable for lone uncommon words. It seems to rely heavily on internet-trained ML, and does pretty well with phrases and sentences, but for single words I see it return nonsense fairly often.
As an alternative, https://jisho.org/ https://jisho.org/ is super easy to use and hasn't let me down yet.
- naniwaduni 7y agoIn the other direction, I've seen gtl invert the meaning of sentences on subtle variations of the なければ pattern, which is probably a fairly small error in the problem space but, well, inverts the meaning of the sentence. A good reminder that parallel corpus machine learning does not see the world the same way you do.
- amyjess 7y agoPersonally, when I'm checking a translation, I like to use WWWJDIC's text glossing mode: https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?9T https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?9T The thing with my Japanese skills is that my grammar is excellent, but my vocabulary is limited, so a gloss of the kanji in a sentence is _massively_ useful to me (and kanji is a double-edged sword: I recognize far more words in hiragana (or when spoken) than in kanji, but kanji is pretty much necessary for a dictionary to have any decent idea of what the word is). I'll have to give Jisho a try though.