Comments on: Extending Your Community – Through Machine Translation http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:57:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Extending Your Community – Through Machine Translation | Automated Translation (MT) Trends | Scoop.it http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/#comment-130224 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:57 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=3727#comment-130224 [...] Out Of Sight, Out of Mind? It was over ten years ago, when I was the project manager for the EU-funded Exploit Interactive ejournal that I first started to explore the potential of machine translat…  [...]

]]> By: Has Machine Translation Come of Age? « UK Web Focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/#comment-108811 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:10:55 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=3727#comment-108811 [...] two years ago in a post entitled Extending Your Community – Through Machine Translation I suggested that although in the past machine translation was felt to be of little use, [...]

]]> By: Edunomia http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/#comment-75915 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:44:51 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=3727#comment-75915 Llengua i social media [una evolució personal en l'ús de les llengües a la xarxa]…

No fa pas gaire vaig escriure una entrada titulada “Llengua i twitter” on expressava la meva preocupació pel català a les xarxes socials (social media), especialment al twitter. Avui voldria exposar un petit canvi al meu món dels social med…

]]> By: mariekeguy http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/#comment-75870 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:59:58 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=3727#comment-75870 Hi Brian,

Agreed, machine translation has moved on from the time when I wrote this article for the Cultivate project – The Soldiers are in the Coffee – An Introduction to Machine Translation”>The Soldiers are in the Coffee – An Introduction to Machine Translation. Google Translate does a pretty good job, though context is still the key to good translation. However as you show thorough your Twitter example it is ability to reach a global community that really helps us understand things written in another language.

Marieke

]]> By: Mike Unwalla http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/extending-your-community-through-machine-translation/#comment-75862 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:09:50 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=3727#comment-75862 @Brian: Perhaps machine translation now does have a role to play. Invisible idiot? I think not!

I agree. Machine translation is a powerful tool. If the source text is optimised for machine translation, machine translation gives satisfactory translations (http://www.international-english.co.uk/mt-evaluation.html).

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