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This is really cool. I sent it several paragraphs to translate and the results were quite understandable. On a quick check I don't think the quality is as good
by dwheeler 6y ago
This is really cool. I sent it several paragraphs to translate and the results were quite understandable. On a quick check I don't think the quality is as good as Google Translate (currently), but it's pretty darn decent already & I expect it to keep getting better. No machine translator is going to be perfect... but for many uses that's fine, it just needs to be "good enough".
It comes up with some amusing translations. E.g., "Fruit flies like bananas" translates in French to "Les fruits volent comme des bananes" which is something like "The fruits fly like bananas." This is a standard example of translation problems (In "Fruit flies" is "flies" a verb or are we talking about the animals called fruit flies?).
I encourage people to contribute to the OPUS parallel corpus database (data or help): https://opus.nlpl.eu/ https://opus.nlpl.eu/
That's the training data set used by LibreTranslate. In general, the better the corpus used for training, the better the translation results will be.