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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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 Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: Google translation: Eng-> Korean - Accurate? |
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Is the English to Korean translation facility on Google any better than the Korean to English facility?
http://www.google.ie/language_tools?hl=en |
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keetrainchild
Joined: 06 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Your topic asks if it's accurate, but your post asks if it's better than the Korean to English translator. I don't know if it can translate English into Korean better than it can translate vice-versa, but I do know that like (virtually?) all automatic translation services, it's probably not very accurate in general, especially for anything involving multiple words, long sentences, idioms, et cetera. |
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Gaber
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Seems fine to me. I keep it on my iGoogle homepage and use it every day. I used to use dictionary.com's translator but found it too slow. The google one can handle sentences quite well. I use it to translate reviews on gmarket and can usually get what the person is saying. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| keetrainchild wrote: |
| Your topic asks if it's accurate, but your post asks if it's better than the Korean to English translator. |
Good point. 'Accurate' can be quite subjective so I thought I'd define a reasonably objective (from my perspective!) measuring point. I consider the Korean->English translation facility not very reliable, so if the English->Korean translation facility is the same or worse then I would conclude that it isn't accurate enough for me. I wouldn't expect any translator to be 100% accurate. |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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No it's not
See thread in Buy and Sell last week about Halo 3 |
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Jeff's Cigarettes
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I use WorldLingo, babelfish and google and they are sometimes helpful for one or two word translations. However, oftentimes the translated rendition makes no sense at all, leaving back at zero and guessing. |
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superdave
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: over there ----->
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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there's a new translator around at nicetranslator.com
it's surprisingly good ... it's a translate as you go kinda system.
nifty! |
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