Let me agree with it completely (out of the shadow ;). This feature's aim is obviously to help understand totally "alien" texts to a certain [at least minimal?] extent. This whole thing has absolutely nothing to do with 'translation/interpretation' in it's proper sense. It's a pair of crutches for those, who are otherwise helpless. ;)
B. -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Peter Gervai Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:28 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 00:54, masti<mast...@gmail.com> wrote: > current level of sophistication of translation tools, especialy of > languages that do not belog to the same group as english, german, > french, etc. is completely useless. Let me disagree. Hungarian is not in the same group by far, and the results make it possible to understand more than 50% of the text (sometimes I'd say above 90%). While this is far from proper translation it is by no means _useless_, since its obvious use is to understand a completely foreign text to some extents. And I'd like to second that the quality has been really improving, whether the state of the art linguistic science backs its theory up or not. This is observation, and not theory. But I see this is an exaggeration contest, so I'll go back to the shadow. :-) grin _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l __________ ESET Smart Security - Vmrusdefinmciss adatbazis: 4143 (20090610) __________ Az |zenetet az ESET Smart Security ellenorizte. http://www.eset.hu __________ ESET Smart Security - Vírusdefiníciós adatbázis: 4143 (20090610) __________ Az üzenetet az ESET Smart Security ellenorizte. http://www.eset.hu _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l