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My favourite glitch in Translate happened around 2008, where in the en/ru pair it translated Bush as Путин (Putin) and Putin as Буш (Bush). The reason was appa
by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
My favourite glitch in Translate happened around 2008, where in the en/ru pair it translated Bush as Путин (Putin) and Putin as Буш (Bush).
The reason was apparently that in the training corpus, where the English version said something like "Bush met with Putin", the Russian version tended to say "Putin met with Bush"
- sorokod 7y ago"pelosi met with trump" is translated incorrectly to Russian as "Пелоси встретился с Трампом" The Russian verb is incorrectly in masculine form. Interestingly both names are capitalised in translation
- watt 7y agoThe verb is "incorrectly" used only if you assume that "pelosi" implicitly refers to female politician "Nancy Pelosi". You might infer that if Nancy was recently in the news, but that's a hard leap.
- sorokod 7y agoDon't need to assume anything, it was my text snippet and pelosi did refer to a female polition. A contemporary human translator would reasonably default to the feminine form without further context.