ProMT Machine translation (Russian) - how good is it? Thread poster: williamson (X)
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williamson (X)
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Just a question to the Russian community: How good is ProMT and how do you think it will evolve given that it is an ongoing project. It is not perfect, but does it convene meaning? How good is the translation: a rough idea or an approach. Syntax failures or not.
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Natalie 
Poland
Local time: 07:09
Member (2002)
English to Russian
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER | Below is an example of translation done with Promt | Aug 3, 2002 |
I took several sentences from ProZ info page (to see Cyrillics properly, please set Cyrillic Win-1251 encoding in your browser).
Source text:
Have a job but not the right person to do it? You will find ProZ.com useful. Post the requirements of your job on this site, and service providers will be notified immediately. They\'ll contact you directly. Jobs posted on ProZ.com are \'smart\', and coordinate outsourcer-requirements with translator-prerequisites. A job is s... See more I took several sentences from ProZ info page (to see Cyrillics properly, please set Cyrillic Win-1251 encoding in your browser).
Source text:
Have a job but not the right person to do it? You will find ProZ.com useful. Post the requirements of your job on this site, and service providers will be notified immediately. They\'ll contact you directly. Jobs posted on ProZ.com are \'smart\', and coordinate outsourcer-requirements with translator-prerequisites. A job is selectively routed to a small, targeted group of users based upon information in their profiles.
Translation:
Èìåéòå ðàáîòó, íî íå ïðàâèëüíûé(ïðàâûé) ïåðñîíàæ, ÷òîáû äåëàòü ýòî? Âû íàéäåòå ProZ.com ïîëåçíûì. Ïåðåíåñèòå íåîáõîäèìûå óñëîâèÿ âàøåé ðàáîòû íà ýòîì ìåñòîîáèòàíèè, è ïîñòàâùèêè óñëóã áóäóò óâåäîìëåíû íåìåäëåííî. Îíè âîéäóò â êîíòàêò ñ Âàìè ïðÿìî. Èîâû ðåãèñòðèðîâàëè íà, ProZ.com \'øèêàðí\'(\'ñèëåí\'), è êîîðäèíèðóþò outsourcer-íåîáõîäèìûå óñëîâèÿ ñ ìåòîäèêîé îáó÷åíèÿ òðàíñëÿòîðà. Ðàáîòà âûáîðî÷íî íàïðàâëåíà ê ìàëîìó, öåëåíàïðàâëåííàÿ ãðóïïà ïîòðåáèòåëåé, îñíîâàííûõ íà èíôîðìàöèþ â èõ ïðîôèëÿõ.
Without the source text I would not understand what is this all about.
Moreover, Promt is \"great\" in translation of quite simple texts:
Source:
Hello, how are you?
Thank you very much, I am fine, and you?
Translation:
Ïðèâåò, êàê - Âû?
Áîëüøîå ñïàñèáî, ÿ ïðåêðàñåí, è Âû?
My opinion: Promt is good enough when you use it as a dictionary; it is practically useless as a translation tool, as too much work is needed to correct (read: redo) the translation. ▲ Collapse
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Milana_R
Local time: 22:09
Russian to English
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| I absolutely agree with Natalie | Aug 4, 2002 |
The time spent on completely rewriting the translation, would be greater than translating the piece anew - as evident from her examples.
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arterm
Serbia
Local time: 07:09
English to Russian
| You need to have dictionaries for each topic. | Aug 4, 2002 |
These dictionaries are sold separetely.
They can greatly improve the quality.
You will also need to enter a glossary for each text before starting translation.
After couple hours of setup it can give some text toedit it further. Usually the issue is wrong order of words.
Can help sometimes if you are good at editing the text and too lazy to type it. Sometimes it saves time when used with something like wordfast.
You will de... See more These dictionaries are sold separetely.
They can greatly improve the quality.
You will also need to enter a glossary for each text before starting translation.
After couple hours of setup it can give some text toedit it further. Usually the issue is wrong order of words.
Can help sometimes if you are good at editing the text and too lazy to type it. Sometimes it saves time when used with something like wordfast.
You will defenitely need to use some translation memory with it.
New Promt XT gives very good quality and has rudimentary translation memory inside.
For professional results you\'ll need lots of editing.
Good dictionary is included.
Very challangable software but definitely the best English-Russian machine translation tool we tried.
Just be careful with it and make a good glossary then you can save a lot of time. ▲ Collapse
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Natalie
Poland
Local time: 07:09
Member (2002)
English to Russian
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER
Having good glossaries, one will save a lot of time using NOT Promt, but some CAT tool. And the results will be much, much better.
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Expert2003 (X)
Russian to English
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| ProMT "quality" | Aug 6, 2002 |
Hello Mr. Williamson,
ProMT translates in \"word-by-word\" manner,
ignoring all grammar rules. It is very bad translator. Believe me, I am a native Russian and an expert in En-Ru/Ru-En translation evaluation. My opinion that ABBYY Lingvo v 8.0 (En-Ru-En dictionary with phrases translation support)has better performances, though it doesn\'t translate entire text at all. The resume is that Russians still did not produce satisfactory machine translator so far. It\'... See more Hello Mr. Williamson,
ProMT translates in \"word-by-word\" manner,
ignoring all grammar rules. It is very bad translator. Believe me, I am a native Russian and an expert in En-Ru/Ru-En translation evaluation. My opinion that ABBYY Lingvo v 8.0 (En-Ru-En dictionary with phrases translation support)has better performances, though it doesn\'t translate entire text at all. The resume is that Russians still did not produce satisfactory machine translator so far. It\'s understandable since Russian economy is in ruins...
Contact me if you really need support in translation into Russian. I am looking for cooperation with native English speakers to create a strong team which would provide quality both En-Ru and Ru-En translation by
mutual editing by native language speakers.
Regards,
Yuri (Expert2003)
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On 2002-08-03 07:30, williamson wrote:
Just a question to the Russian community: How good is ProMT and how do you think it will evolve given that it is an ongoing project. It is not perfect, but does it convene meaning? How good is the translation: a rough idea or an approach. Syntax failures or not.
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| never use computer translation in Russian! | Aug 8, 2002 |
My opinion: computer translations into Russian may be used for only one purpose: for having fun! Every translated sentence is a joke!
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Monika Martens
Local time: 07:09
Italian to Albanian
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In memoriam | Not a good idea... | Aug 8, 2002 |
Using Promt is not a good idea at all.
If you ve\'got a simple text and want to know what does it mean, Promt will give you an idea, probably not the very exact meaning, but still..
But if you want to use it for professional translations.. - waste of time!
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| Let me disagree… | Aug 25, 2002 |
Nevertheless… Let’s try to understand the purpose of ProMT and other machine translation tools. These tools are not designed as a replacement of a human translator. Their main purpose is to give an idea of the meaning of a text in a source language to a person who does not have any idea about the source language. And ProMT (and other machine translation tools) works pretty well. They give an idea.
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| Let me disagree… | Aug 25, 2002 |
Nevertheless… Let’s try to understand the purpose of ProMT and other machine translation tools. These tools are not designed as a replacement of a human translator. Their main purpose is to give an idea of the meaning of a text in a source language to a person who does not have any idea about the source language. And ProMT (and other machine translation tools) works pretty well. They give an idea.
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. I got nearly mad afterwards while re-ed
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