In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
8642 EU to help babel fish?
from an article on a tech website (I won't bore you all with the actual link!):
[I]"The European Commission is seeking to make us all speak in Brusselsese by donating millions of its documents to translation software developers.
The commission described the donation of its "collection of about one million sentences and their high quality translations in 22 of the 23 official EU languages" as a step further in its "efforts to foster multilingualism as a key part of European unity in diversity".
At first glance, the offer would appear to be a boon to anyone developing a translation engine. The EU has 23 official languages, and its translation services span 253 possible language pair combinations, producing about 1.5 million translated pages a year. This should provide plenty of high quality material for engines to get their teeth into."
On the other hand, we are talking about Brussels here, where everything reads like gibberish and gobbledegook, even when it's written in your native tongue to begin with.[/I]
... so, we can look forward to babel fish 2.0 offering us gramatically perfect but entirely meaningless translations in future :-)
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Che significa? - Italian Language Queries
[quote=pigro;81126][I]"The European Commission is seeking to make us all speak in Brusselsese by donating millions of its documents to translation software developers.
The commission described the donation of its "collection of about one million sentences and their high quality translations in 22 of the 23 official EU languages" as a step further in its "efforts to foster multilingualism as a key part of European unity in diversity".
At first glance, the offer would appear to be a boon to anyone developing a translation engine. The EU has 23 official languages, and its translation services span 253 possible language pair combinations, producing about 1.5 million translated pages a year. This should provide plenty of high quality material for engines to get their teeth into."[/I][/quote]
Now, let's look at a to and from translation...
[quote=babblefish]The European Commission, we do all search brusselsese speak donated by hundreds of thousands of software developers for document translation.
The committee described the donation "and the collection of about 1 million is a translation of a high quality, 22 of the EU's 23 official languages," as a further step, "as multilingual significant efforts to promote part of the diversity of European unity. "
At first glance, and that the benefits provided, nobody appears to be a translation engine development. EU's 23 official languages, the language translation service spanned 253 possible combinations of pairs, production, about 150 million pages a year to translate. This is a high quality material to provide a lot of the engine to get one's teeth, "[/quote]
It has a charm all of it's own, doesn't it!