[Corpora-List] Google's translations

[Kuzman Ganchev]

Google search of '800 NOK in USD' gets the correct result; it's just not
part of translation.  

Kuzman

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:41:12AM -0500, John F. Sowa wrote:
> > Clearly the massive amount of English training data has certain
> > extremely unfortunate consequences for the choice of lexical items.
> > It is amusing, but could be potentially very confusing, when one
> > currency is translated to another (but not recalculated!).,,
> >
> > Olje koster kr 800 fatet. Gassen koster NOK 400 mens vindkraft
> > koster seksti kroner.
> >
> > Oil costs U.S. $ 800 per barrel. The gas costs NOK 400, while
> > wind power costs sixty kroner.
>
> That is an example where some rule-based processing should be
> added as a supplement to statistical methods.  It could recognize
> pairs of (unit, value) and either translate both or leave both
> unchanged.
>
> Wolfram's Alpha system (which is used in Microsoft's Bing) can
> handle such examples.  I typed "What is 400 NOK in dollars?"
> to Bing.com and got the answer
>
>    400 NOK = 68.38800 USD
>
> For "What is sixty kroner in dollars?", Wolfram didn't do anything,
> but the first two hits in Bing were web sites for converting
> Danish kroner and Norwegian kroner.
>
> For "What is kr 800 in dollars?" the first hit was a web site
> with the title "What is 800 euros in dollars? - Yahoo! Answers"
>
> John Sowa
>
>
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