Comments on Medical Translation Insight: Is Google Translate accurate enough for profession...

Google Translate is helpful for finding single wor...

2011-11-28T10:13:57.921-05:00

Google Translate is helpful for finding single words or short expressions (if they are in translation memory).

Don't use machine-translation for professional use, please!

You can find plenty of bad examples even in supermarket shelves.

This debate seems to be ever ending. Google transl...

2011-09-23T12:43:05.252-04:00

This debate seems to be ever ending. Google translate seems to be getting better and better for some languages though.

I must confess, that google translation is a machi...

2011-08-12T09:01:36.457-04:00

I must confess, that google translation is a machine form of translation, so at times it seems to flat in expressing the views.

I'd be interested to know more about the Googl...

2010-11-05T13:04:46.002-04:00

I'd be interested to know more about the Google Translate APIs and how corporations can use them

I loved the article where you explained how it is ...

2010-06-18T12:26:12.118-04:00

I loved the article where you explained how it is the google translator not accurate as a human translator. Thanks, excellent article!

Hannah Brodsky Google MT translation can replace a...

2010-05-17T20:17:32.077-04:00

Hannah Brodsky
Google MT translation can replace a paper dictionary but not a translation. It doesn't understand idiomatic expressions and if a word is in certain case Google can't cope with it. I think that even to get a rough idea what the text is about is a dangerous game. A good translator can instantly see that the translation is wrong. As a tool - I'll it 30%.

The title question alone "Is Google Translate...

2009-12-18T01:50:22.635-05:00

The title question alone "Is Google Translate accurate enough for professional use?" made me laugh.
Seriously, how could any professional even consider any MT "accurate enough for professional use"?
For example, Croatian is highly inflected language (7 cases, singular-plural, 3 genders). So, any MT translation would require more time to edit then translation from

@Paulina, If you google translate the expression &...

2009-12-14T18:04:36.467-05:00

@Paulina,
If you google translate the expression "from scratch" (not from the scratch), then the result that I get is correct and helpful.

As Mike says, (but in my borrowed words) if a rose...

2009-11-27T19:40:56.738-05:00

As Mike says, (but in my borrowed words) if a rose is a rose and nothing but a rose then MT might work. If it goes beyond anything than that, and you have to interpret the text or decide between nuances then MT will have a more difficult time. Part of the thing with MT for me is that you know that something who does not have a clue about languages (a processor) made it ...

If text has a simple grammatical structure, and us...

2009-11-27T06:30:22.583-05:00

If text has a simple grammatical structure, and uses words literally, Google Translate gives satisfactory translations. An article in English was translated into Spanish and into Norwegian using Google Translate. Professional translators evaluated the translations (http://www.international-english.co.uk/mt-evaluation.html).

Check out a tool I have made: Google Translate for...

2009-11-26T00:06:23.767-05:00

Check out a tool I have made: Google Translate for Translators.

http://dallascao.com/gt4t

The key idea is to let the translators select which parts of sentences to be translated by Google and by hitting a shortcut, the selected source text is replaced by its translations from google. It can really save

Sorry, but I can't see how anybody can serious...

2009-11-25T15:49:32.690-05:00

Sorry, but I can't see how anybody can seriously think of using MT for professional applications. This technical invention is great, when you don't speak a language and want to get a gist of a text, written in it. Editing a machine translated text would probably last just as long, as translating it from the scratch (please, google-translate the phrase "from the scratch" and you&

Post-editing of a machine-translated text for flex...

2009-11-25T15:45:16.469-05:00

Post-editing of a machine-translated text for flexible languages with a free word order (e.g. Latvian, Lithuanian) may take more time than human translation when you translate it from scratch.

In my opinion Google Translate can be a good tool ...

2009-11-25T09:56:40.759-05:00

In my opinion Google Translate can be a good tool to assist in translation, but it can't replace a real human. There are many nuances in languages and translation that a statistical or holistic approach of a computer program can't "understand". If you are looking for a quick rough translation, Google Translate is great. For a high level professional translation someone needs to