I agree. You won't have convincing automated page translation for native
speakers until you have an application that can pass the Turing test.
A human translator has a natural language conversation with two
people--listening to one person and talking to another person. It's a
little different than listening and talking to the same person. But it's
a natural language conversation nonetheless. And being able to come
across as a native speaker in a natural language conversation? Well,
that's the Turing test, isn't it?
You can have page translators that do a "good enough" job most of the
time. People have big brains that let them reinterpret, fill in blanks,
and make guesses to come up with meaning. But the pages won't come
across as though a native speaker wrote them.
Kelly
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:56 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Automatic translation tool for web pages
I think you just made my point though Nathan.
You say your Spanish isn't very good and that it seems OK to you. But
you're not the target - a native Spanish speaker is the target! Would
it make as much sense to them? I doubt it.
It was interesting to me that Google did not seem to differentiate
between Mexican Spanish and Spanish Spanish - but my understanding is
that they are very different languages.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
On 18-Nov-09, at 9:06 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My Spanish isn't very good, but the only thing I would change is "a
trav?s" to "por medio".
midrange.com
