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Deepl seems to have a bit of an issue with uncommon street suffixes in Chinese. For example: 江苏省苏州市姑苏区东中市374号槔桥头 Google: Bridge Head, No. 374, Dongzhong City,
by jimz 6y ago
Deepl seems to have a bit of an issue with uncommon street suffixes in Chinese. For example:
江苏省苏州市姑苏区东中市374号槔桥头
Google: Bridge Head, No. 374, Dongzhong City, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Deepl: Pulley Bridge, No. 374, Dongzhong City, Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province
Libre: Cambridge No. 374 in the eastern part of the city of Jiangsu, province of Jiangsu
Watson: No. 374 Bridge Head in East China, Suzhou, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
You can kind of see which service goes for the literal more than the interpretive. It might be a bit unfair to use an address that is more than just the literal street address, although in actual speech, this address is at an intersection with two bridges and it's enough of a local landmark that the addition would make sense. Except for the uncertainty over the proper name of the bridge that actually doesn't throw Google or Deepl off. It's the 市suffix for a street, not unique in this city but certainly rare, that gets all of the services. Libre at least gives it a try, Watson just pretends like it doesn't exist and for whatever reason translates the old name of the city to the new name of the city, which obviously now encompasses a much greater area and exists in a different context. Deepl seems to have figured out that you aren't really supposed to have two cities in one address and tries to rectify that in spite of the literal. I would imagine that a human translator would use the entirety of the street name and add "street" in English to the end. Definitely interesting to see how these services handle somewhat nonstandard and much older address patterns that don't originate necessarily in Mandarin and frequently relates to local landmarks that no longer exist, all of which requires some contextual work beyond your standaard post-1949 naming of streets that tends to be fairly standardized both thematically and in form.