[Yr11 Information Technology] Re: Google Foreign Language Translator

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Interesting Steven .. I must nail down a copy :-)

2009/7/21 Steven Bird <sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au>

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