Yes, but there is still a statistcal predominance. All rules are
broken sometimes. I mentioned Arabic since Tim Buckwalter who is
developing a translation system in competition to you mentiones that
proper names are a great diificulty. Jemiliah the belly dancer ia a
great problem.

You are quite right, or course, about German nouns and as soon as you
get block capitals you have a unicase script.

As far as learning the names of the Norwegian football teams is
concerned, this surely must be the untimate goal of Google in its
linguistic quest. It must correctly classify nouns as being the names
of football terams. A table with

Someteam 0 Vålerenga 1

would seem to have got quite definite hints.

Ultimately I would like to be able to ask questions like "How many
foreign players are there in the English Premier league?". "How many
Englishmen have been signed by Réal Madrid?". I KNOW Google is working
on just such a system.


  - Ian Parker

On 22 Dec, 19:23, Harald Korneliussen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 22, 1:37 pm, Ian Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Norwegian is written in Roman scipt and names have capital letters.
> > جمل or جملة in the feminine is in unicase script. Google seems to have
> > set its face against grammatical analysis and relies solely on
> > statistics. Why can't (in Roman languages at least) have names
> > signalled by capital letters?
>
> I see that in many cases it is smart enough to utilize the capital
> letters (forgetting to capitalize the nouns in German gives far poorer
> results, for instance). However, we sometimes break rules for capital
> letters, for instance in newspaper headlines. Maybe the translator
> learns football team names from newspaper headlines?
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