Pour la plupart des gens, jouer peut être amusant. Here’s a French paragraph we translated into English a while back, firstly with Google’s translation and also Bing Translator’s for comparison. Let’s look at two examples to illustrate this.

Any time a word is used with a meaning other than the most frequently occurring meaning for that word, they’ll choose the more common meaning and the translation will be wrong.

Google Translate has no way of knowing when what it produces simply doesn’t make sense – when the sum of the individual parts doesn’t add up to a coherent whole.

The problems with this approach are twofold: They then assess what the most frequently occurring translation for each component is, and string these together to create the translation of the sentence. So they break each sentence down into individual components (words or phrases) that they can find a match for in their database. Bing Translator and Google Translate provide instant, free translation online. Basically they say that word or phrase x has been most frequently translated as word or phrase y in this language so that’s what we’ll always use for our translations, as it gives us the best odds of being correct. They have then developed a set of statistical matches. Let’s hope they’re right on the reliability score, because this is the cornerstone for all their translations. Yep that’s right, Google Translate is all about maths and odds, not meaning!Įssentially Google has built up huge databases of existing translations produced over many years by human translators that they have adjudged to be reliable and accurate.

Instead its translations are based purely on statistical occurrence. Many people are surprised to learn that Google doesn’t actually try to understand the meaning of each sentence as a whole, as a reader or human translator would. How Google Translate works – the source of its (in)accuracy problems

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