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DeepL already beat Google Translate years ago.
by sunaookami 3y ago
DeepL already beat Google Translate years ago.
- frabcus 3y agoIn tests I did with linguists a year ago, GPT-3.5 was better than DeepL also. Google Translate largely caught up with DeepL a while ago! Specifically, LLMs have a context window larger than a sentence. So can eg infer gender throughout documents. Neither DeepL or Google Translate did that.
- casey2 3y agoDeepL is also very bad, it ties with google in plenty of very basic sentences. Try out: 私は毎週本を読む。友達は漫画だ。 Meta's gets it despite a message claiming that it doesn't know non-English languages very well (which is true).
- sunaookami 3y agoI didn't say that DeepL is better than LLMs only that DeepL is miles better than Google ;). And yeah, I also noticed DeepL sometimes misses some words when translating Japanese (it just ignores them). Google is so much worse though, because it translates Japanese through English (if the target language is not English). DeepL gets better when you have a lot of text. Point is that Google Translate hasn't been #1 since DeepL launched. But now LLMs are (obviously) much better with the added bonus that they can also break down sentences for you.
- Hakkin 3y agoDeepL has its moments but it also has many many failure cases. It particularly is very bad with long text blocks, it commonly completely misses sections of text or repeats the same block of text multiple times.
- KwanEsq 3y agoYeah this is my experience with DeepL as well. It might (sometimes) do better than Google Translate with lone sentences, but give it a few paragraphs and it'll entirely ignore some, and other times it starts repetitively rambling about stuff not even in the original text, quite frequently cars/houses/money.
- hwbunny 3y agoWell, it became worse in the last 6 months.