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> machine translation One look at the Play store and its machine translated descriptions shows how far we are from anything usable.
by _pmf_ 13y ago
> machine translation
One look at the Play store and its machine translated descriptions shows how far we are from anything usable.
- nodata 13y agoI think it shows how far we've come. Remember altavista's machine translation from babelfish?
- mehwoot 13y agoLook at how far we've climbed this tree, we'll make it to the moon soon.
- frik 13y agoAltaVista/Yahoo Babelfish was based on SYSTRAN, as were earlier Google Translate versions! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSTRAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSTRAN SYSTRAN at that time was a rule-based machine translation and was comparable for european languages. Where as Google's newer Translate and Microsoft Translator are statistical machine translators. (both trained with UN and EU documents that are available in several languages). The future is probably a hybrid system (combination of rule-based and statistical) like the most recent SYSTRAN version.