Multilingual Reviews

Also i want to clarify that i am not searching a traslate the whole site , i only want to make aviable reviwes in other lenguages , in order to do that i think we only need

1. A option in reviews to specify the lenguage you are writing , and also a system that can organize by

 them differently , a image says more than a 1000 words so i make this poorly edited paint image to explain it

2. A mod  reviewer for every lenguage: Who  speaks/writes the chosen lenguage but also dominates english fluently and preferently that he is a honorary collaborator , in the spanish case i would vote for Cesar Inca

Yeah, I was surprised how well translating within Google turned out (I think Babelfish hasn't been updated since the '90s so I'm unsurprised it's nonsense). I thought Google was cheating and remembering what I had already put into it, but I grabbed some text from Spanish Wikipedia and it was around as good, and, although it breaks down more when the language gets artistic or technical (which of course is what we would be focusing on here), I was still shocked by some of the sentences it produced. 

Apparently, this is because, unlike Babelfish, and like Bing, although it's better than Bing's, it guesses at what you probably mean by the statistical distribution of words rather than futilely trying to apply grammar rules. So it is more possible than I initially thought, although I think we're reaching the upper limits of what is possible with current technology. Google claims the current version of Translate is still in Beta, but I don't see how much more they can improve it. Scanning more documents is diminishing returns at this point, maybe they plan to crowd-source the difficult sentences and work with the help of the internet.

However, Google started translate in 2007, so Sean may be right and the problem was on Mandrake's end. Or maybe he just needed to use Google instead of Babelfish, we will never know now.

 

I've been quite surprised by the way these online translators have improved recently.

 

I hate to say this (but it's parly in jest, coz I like Mandy), but I'm not sure Mandy's Italian texts made any sense in Italian, before he submitted them to translators though... so expecting them to make sense after ... is a little illusory.

I really doubt that computers will be able to consistently do coherent translations in 3 years. Language is so complex that we're probably going to need processing power bordering on sentient AI before that happens. 

For example, here is both our posts translated into Spanish with Google and then back to English with Babelfish, and then back to English with Google, if you believe Google isn't cheating. This is not just slightly off, that a little more work on algorithms will be able to fix.