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By: seo kostenlos

seo kostenlos — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:24:06 +0000

I dont like Google translator as a widget for my wordpress blog. This need much loading time…

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Machine Translation in the News Again « Language-File.com — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:19:32 +0000

[...] Frej and John Yunker have posted on their blogs the preliminary results from the “Which Engine Translates Best?” [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:52:17 +0000

I am using Google translation and I am satisfied with it. Now, I am exploring other sites. I think it is the issue of readability especially with article-type of texts.

By: Kirti Vashee

Kirti Vashee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:07:32 +0000

I have shared some feedback from a variety of professionals that you may find interesting at:
http://kv-emptypages.blogspot.com/2010/03/ongoing-quest-for-best-mt-translation.html

Here is the intro:

MT has been in the news a lot of late and professionals are probably getting tired of this new hype wave. Major stories in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have been circulating endlessly – please don’t send them to me, I have seen them.

There is also another initiative by Gabble On which asks volunteers to evaluate Google Translate, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo Babel Fish translations. And bloggers like John Yunker and many others have posted the preliminary results to that perennial question “Which Engine Translates Best?” on their blogs.

This certainly shows that inquiring minds want to know and that this is a question that will not go away. It is probably useful to have a general sense from this kind of news but does this kind of coverage really leave you any wiser and more informed?

By: Fernando MTC

Fernando MTC — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:29:09 +0000

I think we have beaten all them, just in English to Spanish. Take a look at this brief video: http://bit.ly/a5MADH
We’ll make a demo in Madrid next 22, March.

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:32:48 +0000

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By: Ethan Shen

Ethan Shen — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:02:07 +0000

I agree with you that brand names are likely to have had some effect on the early results. Since March 4th, we have implemented a feature that hides the brands and randomizes the positions of the results to mitigate these particular biases. Please go vote at http://www.Gabble-on.com and encourage your friends to do so as well. The best way to overcome this bias is to have a large set of data to compare it to. Thanks for your interest in our project!

- Ethan

By: k

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:26 +0000

They voted on brand names…. were there any principles of experiment design that were not thrown out the window in that first survey?

Looking forward to seeing the results of the second survey.