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Re:DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language by gabeytani on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:39AM (#15123148)
Just tried with the golem.de article:

Google Translate:

> Better than Google and Microsoft - the German company DeepL is committed to translation services. DeepL uses a novel architecture of neural networks and uses a supercomputer with 5.1 petaflops. By the same company, the service comes Linguee who has already made with translations of individual words or phrases a name. Texts translated by humans are used for translations in order to provide better results.

DeepL:

> Better than Google and Microsoft - this is the goal that DeepL, a German company, has set itself, at least for translation services. DeepL uses a novel architecture of neural networks and relies on a supercomputer with 5.1 petaflops. The Linguee service, which has already made a name for itself with translations of individual words or groups of words, comes from the same company. In doing so, human-translated texts are used for translations in order to deliver better results.

I think the DeepL version makes more sense here, but I am not a German reader so I might be off.

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Re:DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language by supermdguy on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:06AM (#15123692)
Deepl is much better than Google translate. I could almost imagine reading its translation, and not noticing anything.
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Re:DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language by Sujan on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:52AM (#15123195)
The DeepL version indeed makes more sense, but still has several things a human translator would probably do differently. Still very impressive.

(Unfortunately EN->DE translations from DeepL are not on the same level - yet -, at least not on the stuff I just put in.)

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Re:DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language by ma2rten on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:09AM (#15123249)
That's also first thing I tired, ... Looks like people are more predicable than we think. If I was them i would make sure that I do a good job on that.
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