[Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

[praveenp]

Consider Malayalam Language sentense "വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഒരു നല്ല വിജ്ഞാനകോശം ആണ്" 
means "Wikipedia is a good encyclopedia". How one can understand if a 
translator picks meaning of Malayalam words and create an English 
sentence like "wikipedia one good encyclopedia is". Please think about 
more complex sentences. Sentence structure of Indian languages are 
completely different from English or European languages. Google's 
current attempt putting extra weight over tiny communities by pushing 
them complete rewriting (Easiest way is deletion because some sentence 
does not make any sense at all). I am not against machine translations 
but Google must improve their tool or toolkit before trying it over 
small wikipedias.




On Sunday 25 July 2010 09:01 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> --- On Sun, 25/7/10, Fajro<faigos at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Machine translation is always unsuitable to produce usable
>> articles, but can
>> help to start new ones in smaller wikipedias.
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> I second that. About 50% of machine translation output is gibberish, or worse, plausible-sounding text that actually says the opposite of what the original said. To get it into readable form takes about as long as starting from scratch.
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> Translation memory software only helps where content is repetitive.
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> A.
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