I am using the web, public API and research API to translate English- Japanese. I get some interesting results. Here are a couple examples...
I translate '古代ギリシアのオリンピアの祭典をもとに開催する事を19世紀末にソルボンヌ大における会議でフランスのクーベルタン男爵に よって提唱、決議された。' I get 'The conference proposed by French Baron Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century, the Sorbonne things based festival held in Olympia in ancient Greece was resolved.' for all three translations. However with the research API word alignments are all 0! (Not this happens with Chinese, since there are no spaces between words). I need word alignments, so I insert spaces between groups of characters of the same type (hiragana, katakana and kanji) and translate the following sentence... '古代 ギリシア の オリンピア の 祭典 を もとに 開催 する 事 を 19 世紀末 に ソルボンヌ 大 における 会議 で フランス の クーベルタン 男爵 によって 提唱、 決議 された。' In this case, the research API and web both return the exact same English translation as before the spaces were added. However the Public API returns a different result for the second half of the sentence. 'The conference proposed by French Baron Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century to the Sorbonne to it held under the festival of Olympia in ancient Greece were resolved.' This is definitely NOT a major issue as users will not normally pass Japanese sentences with spaces inserted like I have. I just found it odd that the public API returned different results when spaces were inserted! However I have another serious issue. When translating English to Japanese, both Public API and web return the same results. However the research API is inferior. For example the simple sentence... 'The Winter Olympic Games also have many sports, but they are played in the winter.' Returns '冬季オリンピックでも、多くのスポーツをして彼らは冬に再生されます。' with the web and public API - which is pretty good. The research API returns '冬季オリンピックもスポーツも、多くの人は冬にある演奏。', which is a very poor translation in comparison to the public API. On Aug 4, 7:47 am, "Jeff S (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marek, > > We strive for little to no difference between the two. Could you share > with us some examples of inputs that yield different translations. I > tried an example recently with a mix of HTML with the text and the > handling of the HTML was slightly different between the web and API > versions. With more details it will be easier for us to track down the > issue. > > Thank you, > > Jeff > > On Aug 3, 3:32 am, marrra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > when I translate something trhu api and same text with web > > (translate.google.com) results are different, why? > > > Thank you for your reply. > > > Best regards. > > Marek FIala -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
