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Message: 3929
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 05/02/2004
Subject: Re: Forget-me-not / Machine-Translation / Russian
Igor Makovsy wrote:
>Not much joy with the translators I've tried:
> Ok, guys, first hello. That`s me. I`m alive and healthy.
> Everything goes fine. For those, who interested in me, my
> interests (including Willy), my life can VISIT my absolutely new
> web page.
>
> www.bwcit.tk
> www.bwc.by.ru
> - THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS KNOWING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OR A
> GOOD RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR.
* Babel Fish [ http://babelfish.altavista.com/ ]
* PROMT [ http://www.translate.ru/eng/srvurl.asp ]
Babel Fish can make something of http://www.bwc.by.ru/default.htm
but unfortunately doesn't seem to recognise the links on the left.
Machine-translation is a topic that I find fascinating and
entertaining; unfortunately it still doesn't have much to show for
all the research-grants it's been attracting since the 1950s.
e.g. (1) "Press 'Y' for Yes" -> "Taper 'Y' pour Oui"
e.g. (2) One English<->Russian translator apparently
translated "hydraulic ram" to Russian, and back to English
as "water sheep"! Round-trip translation is definitely not the way
to evaluate the quality of a translator...
You've just moved learning Russian a little higher up my list of
priorities! ;-) I taught myself Slovak last year - maybe Russian in
2005 if I'm not too busy. I'm a fan of Iroda Tulyaganova and Maria
Sharapova after all, and I have the advantage of my mother being a
former teacher of Russian.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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