Google translations - scientific article I am working is already online ("translated by google") Thread poster: Nicholas Stedman
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While translating a very recent scientific article this morning I was surprised to find that a translation of the same article had already been posted on the web.
Underneath it said "translated by google".
The translation was not really that bad and there were only a few mistakes! Surely this can't be a machine translation. Also how much does a google translation cost?
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| | | | Nicole Schnell 
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In memoriam | The text was most likely edited by a real brain | Jan 26, 2009 |
A Google translation costs - nothing.
| | | | esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | I doubt that | Jan 26, 2009 |
Nicole Schnell wrote:
The text was most likely edited by a real brain
Google translation, as explained, is sort of statistically based. If it produces a bearable translation, this means, Google can access a sufficient number of relevant (and good) parallel pages in the source and target language. As for translation from English to Russian, I haven’t so far seen any example that could be dubbed “not really that bad”, they all are horrible, which, probably, means that Russian equivalents to English pages are scarce.
| | | | Saeid Hasani
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| Machine Translation | Jan 26, 2009 |
google translation is only a machine translation; consequently, it should not be the machine translation product the way you rated the translation
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Taija Hyvönen
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| This might explain... | Jan 27, 2009 |
Google translation, as explained, is sort of statistically based. If it produces a bearable translation, this means, Google can access a sufficient number of relevant (and good) parallel pages in the source and target language.
... why sometimes when you google something in Finnish, the first Google page may show pages that are a garbled mess consisting of Finnish and English words mixed in a way that seems random, but is actually a machine translation. Out of curiosity I sometimes press the "translate this page" button in Google and get a similar result - it does have Finnish words in it, but rarely makes any kind of sense.
I find it somewhat disturbing that Google may give this nonsense as first five results when you are looking for information
| | | | esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | It is not machine translation actually, | Jan 27, 2009 |
it is kind of an attempt to make translation memories by guessing, what could be a match. However, it is not real TM either. Something between MT and TM.
Ones upon a time, I’ve tried Google translation just for fun: was looking some computer tips, found a page and Google suggested translation. That translation did not make much sense, but was not total nonsense either. OK, I’ve manually corrected some pieces (the page was not very long and I was not busy) and submitted my transl... See more it is kind of an attempt to make translation memories by guessing, what could be a match. However, it is not real TM either. Something between MT and TM.
Ones upon a time, I’ve tried Google translation just for fun: was looking some computer tips, found a page and Google suggested translation. That translation did not make much sense, but was not total nonsense either. OK, I’ve manually corrected some pieces (the page was not very long and I was not busy) and submitted my translations to Google (this option is available with some pop-ups on translated pages). However, when I tried to access this page a day and a week later, I did not see any improvement. It looks like Google shuns intervention of real human brains
For reference, the source page was in English, my target language was Russian.
[Edited at 2009-01-27 09:01 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | BTW, I’ve translated this thread with Google to Russian | Jan 27, 2009 |
Well, if you are used to deciphering very bad Russian of beginners, you can understand Google translation as well
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