[Corpora-List] Google's translations

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On 3/11/2010 10:10 AM, chris brew wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Peter Kolb <pekoli at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pekoli at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I have three comments:
>
>     1. The text by Kant contains a lot of anaphoric pronouns. From
>     Google's translation it is obvious that their system does not
>     perform any pronoun resolution (or at least none that works better
>     than a random baseline). However, there exist German to English
>     translation engines on the market that incorporate such components.
>
>
> I would moderate that conclusion. If, as I suspect, the Google engine 
> for German to English is a statistical
> one, it will be choosing a translation by optimizing a complex 
> internal criterion that involves tradeoffs between multiple criteria. 
> Because SMT systems are not conventionally modular, it is hard to
> say what components they have or do not have.

     Which is why it would be a huge boon to the science of language if 
more of the statistical machine translation systems produced some kind 
of human-readable report of what they "learn" from their "training" data.

-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com

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