[Wikipedia-l] Re: Africa info

[Mark Williamson]

Even if machine translation can reach such a level, there are still
certain things about language that take a human to fix.

For example, if I translate a document from Chinese, it may be
difficult to understand and seem unnatural, even though there are no
real grammatical errors and all translations are technically correct.
If I find this happens, I will go back and read the Chinese version,
and rephrase the English translation into a more "English" way of
saying the same thing.

There are also other issues, but most are very difficult to explain.

Mark

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:44:47 -0500, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Sabine Cretella wrote:
> 
> > Never ever a machine will be able to translate correctly - not now,
> > not tomorrow, not in 100 years - it's a dream many have - sorry, I
> > must destroy it.
> 
> A pedantic point, but this is assuming that machines are not capable of
> human-level intelligence.  Many in the AI community would beg to differ. =]
> 
> (Although whether it'll be 10, 20, 50, 100, or 500 years before an
> artificial intelligence can learn things like languages with the same or
> better aptitude as humans is a matter of debate.)
> 
> -Mark
> 
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