[Tlhingan-hol] reporting errors with Bing translator
De'vID
de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 05:39:18 PDT 2013
I understand that several grammarians are involved in Bing translator
and can fix errors?
One particularly egregious one at the moment is that {qavan,} (with
the trailing comma, or with a period or exclamation mark) is
translated as "Hi baby,". Since I sometimes write messages to people
beginning with {qavan,}, I don't want them plugging that into Bing and
getting the wrong idea!
I thought the Bing translator was based on statistical translation, so
I have to wonder where in the corpora we have {qavan,} and "Hi baby,"
in the corresponding translation.
(Without the trailing punctuation, it becomes "Hello how are", which
is still wrong, but less likely to lead to unfortunate
misunderstandings.)
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De'vID
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