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That would be really helpful because taken out of context, single words translated to English will often produce very confusing results. My suggestion would be
by curiousfab 3y ago
That would be really helpful because taken out of context, single words translated to English will often produce very confusing results. My suggestion would be to ditch the google links and provide a properly translated version that is revealed when hovering over a word/phrase. Such a translation could be crowd sourced.
- fersarr 3y agoYea, I can definitely improve that! That sounds like better way to do it. Thanks!
- clbrmbr 3y agoOr, ask an LLM to give glosses. You can tap to get a gloss in English. (Or other languages later.) GPT-3.5 is already very good at sense disambiguation
- clbrmbr 3y agoGPT-4 Prompt: Please assist with providing English glosses for a German text. For phrases which are not easily interpreted word-for-word, please provide a gloss for the whole phrase. Otherwise, provide a gloss for each word. You may output the glosses as a list, one gloss per line, german on left, followed by an arrow (-->), and then the english gloss. Here's some of the output: Es --> It war --> was ein --> a sonniger --> sunny Tag --> day im --> in the Wald --> forest und --> and ein --> a Mädchen --> girl namens --> named Lisa --> Lisa ging --> went spazieren --> for a walk Sie --> She hörte --> heard plötzlich --> suddenly ein --> a Geräusch --> noise und --> and drehte --> turned sich --> herself um --> around I was expecting "drehte sich um" to be grouped together, but I'm pleased with the glosses. Note how "sich" is glossed with "herself". That's understanding the context properly. Much more useful than a dictionary definition of "sich". Similar for "sonniger" which Google translated as "sunnier" out of context. EDIT: Note that GPT-3.5 gave me exactly the same glosses.