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Also, please feel free to give us more feedback in this forum. On Sep 15, 6:30 am, LinaLi wrote: > Can't Google Translator be taught to translate proper nouns.. ahem.. > properly? > A while ago it was really funny, now it's becoming sad, come on, > Google, we trust you, is it so difficult? :) > > *Isn't it possible to somehow make translation lists of proper nouns > which would act as a "higher" rule in translation process?* (let's say > scan wikipedia titles - they usually get the titles right - or simply > use dictionaries, <I think we could try to coin some ideas up here if > we knew where the problem lies>) > > E.g. English "I love Riga" becomes "Man patinka Vilnius." in > Lithuanian which is literally "I like Vilnius" - so we flip from the > the capital of Latvia to the capital of Lithuania - yeah, we're > neighbours but it's not an excuse. Or "Dovile" (popular Lithuanian > female name) was translated to "Andrius" (popular Lithuanian male > name, Andrew). > > I really really want to ask, can YOU, can WE do something about this? > I don't think that "Contribute a better translation:" would be a huge > help there (i.e. I expect better/more effective, more straight-forward > solution) > > Btw, have anyone tried to find out why is it such a popular problem? > It's a wild guess, but can it be that sometimes people adjust names to > their culture/country where that language is native while translating > texts (I mean those ones which are being scanned by statistical > machine)? > > What should we do? Are you solving the problem and we don't need to > bother you about this any more? > > P.S. I'm really really sorry if you've already had a topic about this. > Also, sorry for a long text. > On the other hand, you're awesome, have a great day ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" 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-translate-general?hl=en.
