Showing posts with label TRANSLATION SERVICE. Show all posts
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Thursday, 18 July 2013

Are online translator systems reliable? Maybe sí and maybe no

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There are plenty of translating systems on the Internet. The most widely used is Google, with some 60 languages, mainly to get the gist of what a document or website says (or doesn't). Its widespread use may have more to do with inertia than anything else: 'well, I'm on Google, might as well use it...' Our experience is that it is not very good at all, and is more likely to provide a good laugh rather than an intelligable translation. The very first free translator was Babel Fish, now called Bing Translator. There's Linguee, which doesn't translate directly but will put a phrase or word into a context, which helps with understanding rather than transliterating a word. There's Reverso, which you can download and have on your computer, though that isn't really necessary. There's lots more, from Apertium to WorldLingo. The thing is, how reliable are any of them?>>>