Hi again, Long ago I sent some examples of strange things in the story and asked for the original. I intended to correct the translations, but didn't get any answer. It's not any use to discuss examples if you don't know which text is the original. Maybe what appears strange is more close to the original - it's impossible to know.
Right, you seldom translate a Block World Text, but most words and grammatical intrinsics are useful. The verbs take and put are in fact very frequent. It would certainly not be a waste of time if you've managed to master the translation of sentences from the Block World. Yours, Per Tunedal On Fri, Aug 30, 2013, at 15:33, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: > Per Tunedal <[email protected]> > writes: > > > Yes, > > it might be a good idea to test on a more meaningful text. In fact > > that's what I've planned for the next step. > > > > I don't like that story, though. I found some of the translations not > > accurate when I looked at it long ago. And that made me suspect that > > some other translations in languages I didn't know very well were bad as > > well. So I simply skipped it. > > Examples? > > > The Block World Corpus is different. It's conceived to illustrate some > > interesting translation problems. When they are mastered, it's time to > > move on to more meaningful texts. That's why I believe it would be a > > help in developing new language pairs. > > It's hardly natural language though. You'll perhaps get a good > translator of block world texts, but how often does one translate block > world texts? > > -- > Kevin Brubeck Unhammer > > GPG: 0x766AC60C > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft > technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
