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

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Wed Jun 10 14:33:10 UTC 2009


Kalan wrote:
> present for cyrillic languages. Statistical approach sometimes
> discovers false connections that result in factual errors. Examples of
> “translating”, say, “50 USD” as “50 000 UAH” within a particular
> context are known; more of such things can arise unexpectedly. So, at

The funniest example I noticed is that "flew" was translated to Serbian 
as "MaudDib" :) (this has been corrected since).

And yet I can not stress enough how much I find this service useful, 
both for personal use and to ease translation.



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