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As a side note, I didn't notice it was google translate until half way through the article. It's getting really good. Is Russian an "easy" language to translat
by Trufa 13y ago
As a side note, I didn't notice it was google translate until half way through the article. It's getting really good.
Is Russian an "easy" language to translate to English?
- lukeqsee 13y agoI noticed it instantly (the title). I also noticed many irregularities throughout the article. I don't know if you're a native speaker, but to me it was obviously computer translated.
- Trufa 13y agoThe thing is, I though it was poorly written English, written by a non native speaker, rather than a computer. I must also clarify that I was a little distracted.
- mynameishere 13y agoI had to struggle to read it. I mean: After logout, one of the key interlocutors for chat will regenerate, and to check that I have the same key as the source, I can only look in his eyes phone. ...did it translate "iPhone" to "eyes phone"? I'm not sure. If that isn't what happened, then something far more horrible must have.
- Trufa 13y agoThe thing is, I though it was poorly written English, written by a non native speaker, rather than a computer. I must also clarify that I was a little distracted.
- 11001 13y agoThe original: После логаута одного из собеседников ключ для чата будет перегенерирован, а проверить то, что я имею тот же ключ что и собеседник я могу только посмотрев в его телефон глазами. My (human) translation: After one of the participants will log out, the key from the chat will be re-generated, but in order to check that I have the same key as them, I would need to see their phone with my own eyes. This sentence has a particularly non-English word order, plus some missed punctuation. I can see how it would be a hard case for machine translation.
- bane 13y agoMy understanding is that it isn't but recent-ish statistical approaches have had lots of success. I know that almost overnight Arabic went from an unreadable mess to about as good as a basic non-native speaker. I wish it'd find its way into usage for East Asian languages more, but I suppose finding dual-equivalent corpuses to build the models off of is hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translatio...
- Trufa 13y agoInteresting, thanks!
- moron4hire 13y agoEnglish to Russian is a bit easier than Russian to English. Word order doesn't mean as much in Russian as in English, so the translation is lossy.
- symbix 13y agoDoes this seem good to you? Damn, I feel I should stop worrying about my English.