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Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by mmastrac on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:25PM (#25696945)
There was a pre-pub paper on automated translation of manga. I wonder if the same approach could be used in games, assuming you can find a big enough corpus of well-translated games?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14271

Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by numpad0 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:58AM (#25698524)
I think the point on this project and this submission is to illustrate how garbage (machine)translations end up for sentences too short or missing contexts
Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by edflsafoiewq on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:49PM (#25697180)
The translation would have to be done "just in time" so it would have the context from the image on screen.