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Google Translator Toolkit - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
June 9
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Sebastian, ThenWang, HealingBrush and 15 other people liked this
"Google Translator Toolkit is a new tool being launched today to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories."
- Ivan Zuzak
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I am in love. <3
- Vedrana Janković
This is very useful. Not only for translators, but also for the rest of us who will benefit from all of the translation data that Google gathers from this. By having real translators modify machine translations, Google can gather data to improve the machine translation. Smart.
- Justin Doub
This is going to be *big*. A collaborative, social, globally accessible and open translation system has countless applications. I know how long they've been working on this, and am *very* excited!
- Ivan Zuzak
I tried a test with an English document. Translated it to Dutch. It needs some work, but it's a great start. Very impressive.
- Peter van Teeseling
Peter - yeah, the initial translation is done using machine translation which is a statistical approach (the same one used here - http://translate.google.com/transla...). Machine translation will get better as the set of parallel corpora for each language pair gets bigger. And increasing this set is one of the goals of the GTT application.
- Ivan Zuzak
Turkish translation is really poor. :/
- Bahriye
I think the real test for Google Translator is in Translator Boomerang. Some of what it spits out is quite amusing, and very far from the original input...true definition of "lost in translation". http://www.donationcoder.com/Softwar... A conversation with the developer, related to some hilarious results I got: http://omgplzstfukthx.blogspot.com/2006... I think when the end results in Translator Boomerang match more closely to the input, then Google will have made great progress.
- April Russo (app103)
Haha, that sure is one (fun) way to measure the quality of translations. And I agree, it's a bit quirky right now, but I think we will see drastic increase in quality as more and more people join in and "crowdsource" the engine.
- Ivan Zuzak