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More on Statistical Language Translation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ma-grandmere-est-flambe dept.

DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running an article about how statistical language translation schemes have come of age. Rather than compile an extensive list of words and their literal translations via bilingual human programmers, statistical translation work by comparing texts in both English and another language and 'learning' the other language via statistical methods applied to units called 'N-grams'- e.g. if 'hombre alto' means tall man, and 'hombre grande' means big man, then hombre=man, alto=tall, and grande=big." See our previous story for more info.

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  1. New in Slashcode by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: -1, Troll

    If"Article"=dupe;
    title=%More On% "OldTitle"

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    It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
  2. Massive article troll coming up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Cows are back! MooKore will be moo-ing all over the next article! There will be at least 100 cow posts on the next article! Be there at the next article

    -- MooKore!

  3. Wow, this is interesting by Troll+the+Bones · · Score: -1, Troll

    Besides, I'm sure the Klingon Language Institute needs any press around here.

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    So this is where the chess club wound up.
  4. I'm waiting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...till they create human-equine translator, so I could wink to a mare and ask "Hey, babe, feeling horny?" instead of going through all that cross-species communication trouble.

  5. AI has been solved -- use AI robots instead by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that artificial intelligence (AI) has been solved, machine translation (MT) may advance to a higher plane of equality with human translators who spend years learning the nuances and subtleties of their target human languages.

    Computer science has found the Holy Grail of AI in the Concept-Fiber Theory of Mind that led directly to the free AI source code of the Mind-1.1 Tutorial AI described in the AI For You textbook of artificial intelligence and robotics.

    The Association for Computing Machinery has published an article on the robot Mind.Forth AI, and a well-known AI expert has favorably reviewed the Fiber-Concept Theory of Mind.

    Traditional Artificial Intelligence Textbooks are suddenly obsolete, outmoded, or desperately in need of thorough revision and updating to teach Automatic Machine Translation now that AI has been solved.

  6. I'd like to see it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...try japanese or chinese.