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simple explantation: machine learning. the public google translate tool is trained on data from the internet (and google books), and its intended use is for tr
by franze 13y ago
simple explantation: machine learning.
the public google translate tool is trained on data from the internet (and google books), and its intended use is for translating stuff that you found online (on the open web)
google play store translation are trained on data from ... tada ... google play store (and probably editorial translations), it's intended use is for translating descriptions on the play store.
using the play store translation logic on other texts will probably lead to inferior results.
not working for google, just my 2 speculative cents
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- franze 13y agohigh quality cross translations only take you as far, reading "crap" on the internet - is a much bigger data-source. and lets be honest, google is damn good in reading crap on the internet. http://bit.ly/1hnKrbA http://bit.ly/1hnKrbA
- shutupalready 13y agoLooking at that piece of Latin->English translation, the word "United States" caught my attention. How did it get there? I tried to narrow it down. This is the minimal phrase that gives "United States": https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20in%20quam%20tempor https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20.... Obviously it's an error, but what specifically makes you go from: Duis gravida orci in quam tempor. to: Designers in the film which, unlike in the United States.
- userbinator 13y agoThat's what statistical translation algorithms do - form associations between source and target text. How did "United States" get there? Because it was trained on a Latin/English phrase that contained "United States" in the English and probably something completely different in the Latin version, and the algorithm decided that would be the best match.
- marlin 13y agoCuriously, it translates to "It's a child in a candy" on my google translate session.
- shutupalready 13y agoThe presence or absence of period is enough for Google Translate to create entirely different translations! My link above doesn't have a period at the end. HackerNews cuts off the period from the end of the URL it seems. So clicking on this link, https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20in%20quam%20tempor https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20... gives It's a child in a candy, but if you then manually add a period to the end of the sentence, you'll get, Designers in the film which, unlike in the United States.
- marlin 12y agoomg, that's hilarious!