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Olga Koepping
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Royaume-Uni
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I guess... Jul 29, 2014

it's useful for people to understand things they just need a quick reference for. But I do start to wonder where this brave new world of "free stuff" will end...
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Espagne
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Membre (2005)
anglais vers espagnol
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So this is it? Jul 30, 2014

Isn't relying on "language connoisseurs" (whatever that may mean) to improve the Google Translate service quite a sign that Google admits that their technology is not progressing at the pace they expected? To me this indicates that human translators will be here for a very long time indeed. Honestly I do not think that adding crowdsourcing to Google Translate will yield too good a result.
 
Michal Fabian
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Sounds like a vain attempt... Jul 30, 2014

... but at the same time, it's basically Google admitting that machine translation is simply not good enough. And I like to hear that.
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Royaume-Uni
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italien vers anglais
Me too Jul 30, 2014

Michal Fabian wrote:

... but at the same time, it's basically Google admitting that machine translation is simply not good enough. And I like to hear that.


Yes - it's a sign of desperation. Google has found out the hard way that automatic translation doesn't work.



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apk12
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Allemagne
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Simple brave new world Jul 30, 2014

Heck yeah! Let's waste work time for free for a Machine.

Tom in London wrote:

Michal Fabian wrote:

... but at the same time, it's basically Google admitting that machine translation is simply not good enough. And I like to hear that.


Yes - it's a sign of desperation. Google has found out the hard way that automatic translation doesn't work.



Hope it stays that way - that language stays a few steps away (in front of) simplified-solution-machinists. They'll try to change that, this will not end. Let's work on giving them reasons to admit that language complexity is an a bit too tough a nut to be cracked by a simple code (or thousands of them).
 


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