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English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure. So this example is not very elucidating. Comparing it to Chinese, Turkish or Javanese w

English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure. So this example is not very elucidating. Comparing it to Chinese, Turkish or Javanese would probably be better.

tdy721 6y ago
And worthless for most of us English speakers...
popinman322 6y ago
This maps rather nicely to something like Grammatical Framework [0]. I wonder whether they'll adopt an existing project for translation; getting things into this graph form seems like the hard part, honestly. As far as the comparison goes, it should be easy enough to map the trees from the abstract form into language specific trees. We're you hoping to understand the current limitations? Maybe get a benchmark of the state of things that updates automatically as the project continues? [0]: https://www.grammaticalframework.org/ https://www.grammaticalframework.org/
numpad0 6y ago
I think the syntax needs to be derived, not designed. This one here is just English.
perl4ever 6y ago
>English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure Hm, the sentences are structured in a parallel way, but is that really proper German? I don't remember anything from high school German class, but people make jokes about putting the verb way at the end. Or is that an obsolete style?
- prennert 6y ago
  It's actually great German. Syntactically sophisticated. I am surprised by the use of the subsentence (not sure what the proper babe for this is) which puts the three larger cities in the middle of the last sentence. It would have been possible to place the three larger cities at the end of the sentence similar to the English example. This would have sounded a bit more bot-like, and was somehow what I expected. So seeing this particular German example is actually quite a good example showing the power of this approach.

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English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure. So this example is not very elucidating. Comparing it to Chinese, Turkish or Javanese w

by LudwigNagasena 6y ago

English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure. So this example is not very elucidating. Comparing it to Chinese, Turkish or Javanese would probably be better.

tdy721 6y ago
And worthless for most of us English speakers...
popinman322 6y ago
This maps rather nicely to something like Grammatical Framework [0]. I wonder whether they'll adopt an existing project for translation; getting things into this graph form seems like the hard part, honestly. As far as the comparison goes, it should be easy enough to map the trees from the abstract form into language specific trees. We're you hoping to understand the current limitations? Maybe get a benchmark of the state of things that updates automatically as the project continues? [0]: https://www.grammaticalframework.org/ https://www.grammaticalframework.org/
numpad0 6y ago
I think the syntax needs to be derived, not designed. This one here is just English.
perl4ever 6y ago
>English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure Hm, the sentences are structured in a parallel way, but is that really proper German? I don't remember anything from high school German class, but people make jokes about putting the verb way at the end. Or is that an obsolete style?
- prennert 6y ago
  It's actually great German. Syntactically sophisticated. I am surprised by the use of the subsentence (not sure what the proper babe for this is) which puts the three larger cities in the middle of the last sentence. It would have been possible to place the three larger cities at the end of the sentence similar to the English example. This would have sounded a bit more bot-like, and was somehow what I expected. So seeing this particular German example is actually quite a good example showing the power of this approach.