- From: Chris Maden <crism@ora.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:55:10 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
[Daniel Dardailler] > today, Altavista is doing live translation... [Larry Goldberg] > Has anyone analyzed the quality of these automated translations? > Good enough for a native speaker? Not hardly. On several mailing lists and newsfroups I frequent, it has become an amusing exercise to drive a phrase to closure (the point at which a round-trip produces the starting phrase). In a recent example, "I hate spam and want Congress to make it illegal" came back as something like "I hate Spam, which it Congress educates itself illegally." Try it. Have fun. <URL:http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/>. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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