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Well, human translations aren't necessarily better. I recently wanted to train an LLM to act as a translator. As my training data, I used crime novels that were
by leobg 3y ago
Well, human translations aren't necessarily better. I recently wanted to train an LLM to act as a translator. As my training data, I used crime novels that were written in one language and had been translated into the other. When preparing the dataset, I encountered many places where whole sentences were missing, or the meaning of the original had been clearly changed by the translator. Apparently, nobody had checked.
- citrin_ru 3y agoHuman translation quality varies a lot but even good fiction translation is not always staying close to the original. If you would translate fiction true to the original, like you would translate a legal document it unlikely would not be an enjoyable read and that’s the main point for majority of fiction books. So translators often make some changes like using idioms from the destination language which rarely map 1:1 to idioms from the source language or make other changes to keep the style/mood of the original even if they have to sacrifice minor facts.
- leobg 3y agoThat is completely correct. What I had seen, however, was that the translator left out whole details for no apparent reason. That the protagonist feeds the cat before saying good night to his kid. Stuff like that. My guess is that the translator simply overlooked that sentence. And I’m surprised that nobody noticed during editing.