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> Some of the tools and dictionaries used for Viet-English are wonky There's basically no real complete English/Viet dictionary anyways, the best ones are 90%
by realusername 1mo ago
> Some of the tools and dictionaries used for Viet-English are wonky
There's basically no real complete English/Viet dictionary anyways, the best ones are 90% there.
LLMs here are the best experience
- itake 1mo agoI love/hate how Google translate assumes "Anh" means "brother" or "em" means "girl". This confusion has resulted in Vietnamese people unintentionally describing incest or gay relationships. [0] - What she actually meant was "brother" in the sense that he is a family friend and neighbor.
- realusername 1mo agoYes that's also one of the historical struggles of Google Translate, the pronouns are context based and so are the words, you need experience to know when they start and end. It's a miserable experience for translation software.
- alephnerd 1mo agoYou got downvoted but I know what you are talking about, but there were other ways to write that sentence. Basically what OP is saying is interpersonal relations can be confused when using the Vietnamese and English definitions of both words. Anh and Em essentially means masculine and feminine, but is also often used in romantic, non-romantic, casual, and sometimes formal usecases and this is heavily dependent on the verbs and adjectives that follow. Viet-English NMT is very flawed at the moment.
- alephnerd 1mo agoLLMs are also a mixed bag. The core issue is limited Viet-English corpora aside from what can be found in local government documents in the US and Canada given the huge Viet Kieu community requiring local governments to create Vietnamese language collateral.