Friday, December 03, 2004

Machines that Translate

TulipGirl has posted a link to an online language translator. I experimented with the Russian-English autotranslator on the NG article I posted this morning, and found the results surprisingly close to the original. There are oddities - for example, the program gives "audio-film" for "audiotape", and there are various other places where one wouldn't want to trust it, but in general the sense is there, and in surprisingly good English, too. No Ukrainian version of the program yet, though.

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