[Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

[Amir E. Aharoni]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 14:46, Bence Damokos<bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I see as a great feature in the toolkit is the translation memory: in
> practice (after you switch of the machine translation), common phrases in
> Wikipedia articles - like "external links", "notes", "history", "early life"
> etc. - are pretranslated once a human has already translated them; if more
> then one people start working on the same article separately, they can make
> use of the other users' translations and build upon them (without having to
> explicitly 'collaborate' or 'share' for this function to work).

Maybe, but at the very best case it can work for very short passages.
Two or three sentences at most. And it would be taken out of context.

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