Teach You Backwards
An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 108 Languages
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Findings
Introduction
Why “Teach You Backwards”
Overview
Tropes and Mind Tricks
Instant Camera
MUSA: The Make Up Stuff Algorithm
Not Universal Translation
Ideology and Computer Science
Empirical Evaluation
Description of Empirical Tests
Methodology
Evaluators
Empirical Results
Empirical Conclusions
Qualitative Analysis
Digging into the Google Mythology
Dangers of Bad Translation
Myth 1: Artificial Intelligence
AI, MT, and the Flying Car
Myth 2: Neural Networks
Ooga Booga: Better than a Dictionary?
Myth 3: Zero Shot
Myth 4: The Magic Wand
Myth 5: Learning from Users?
Synopsis
Mathematics of MT
Crunching the Numbers
Volume of Untreated Concepts
Lexical Gaps
Semantic Drift
Polysemy
Party Terms
Morphology
World-Framing Categories
Voldemort: The Pronoun Problem
Why Corpora Fall Short
Syntax
Disrupting MT
Cutting Against the Grain
Semantics
SlowBrew Disambiguation
Learning Ideas from Users
Efficiency
Learning Terms from Users
Conclusions
When & How to use Google Translate
Knowing, Guessing, Faking
When GT is a Good Tool
Cautionary Situations
When Translation Matters
7 Situations to NEVER use GT
Final Takeaway
Is DeepL better than Google Translate?
Commentary
Juan Carlos Díaz Vásquez
Andrew Innes
Errol O’Neill
Michael Rundell
About
About the author
About this (unusual) website
Bibliography, Acronyms, and Technical Terms
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Extras
Empirical Data
Facebook NMT Fail
Wikipedia NMT Fail
English Pivot
The Soggy Soup Maid
Catalan Poem
Kamusi v Google Translate
Molecular Lexicography
Contact
Tip
Empirical Data
Can’t really explain it better.
Comment faire éjaculer une femme?
So, don’t hesitate to learn more about it.
Sono morbidi al tatto, talvolta anche appiccicosi.
That way, you don’t dry out your follicles and scalp.
We love the curved surface and attractive design.
Wichtig ist dabei die Verwendung eines guten Gleitgels.
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