Interesting Steven .. I must nail down a copy :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/21 Steven Bird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au">sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/7/21 <<a href="mailto:yr11it-request@edulists.com.au">yr11it-request@edulists.com.au</a>>:<br>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:10:08 +1000<br>
> From: Mark Kelly <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Google Foreign Language Translator<br>
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> I usually demonstrate the drawbacks of electronic translation by getting<br>
> the software to translate some text to (say) French and then back into<br>
> English. The results are usually amusing.<br>
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</div>Thanks for this opportunity to plug my new book...<br>
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Note that there's a couple of examples of this in the "machine<br>
translation" section of chapter 1 of Natural Language Processing with<br>
Python: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516499/" target="_blank">http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516499/</a><br>
<br>
The supplied software that takes a sentence and repeatedly translates<br>
it back and forth between the source and target languages. The book<br>
and software are available for free from <a href="http://www.nltk.org/" target="_blank">http://www.nltk.org/</a><br>
<br>
This material is part of a new second year "breadth" subject at<br>
Melbourne University, called Language and Computation:<br>
<a href="https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/view/2009/800-204" target="_blank">https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/view/2009/800-204</a><br>
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-Steven Bird<br>
<a href="http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Esb/" target="_blank">http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/</a><br>
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