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Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by userbinator on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:04AM (#25697311)
Version 2 of the translation is also pretty bad, but in a different way. This version has logically-constructed sentences, but the actual phrase/word/term choices themselves are often far worse than Version 1. “Proper Japanese” sentences translate poorly compared to Version 1. Overall, this translation is much more playable than Version 1.

The neural network result looks better, but is less accurate, yet much more playable? That's an odd conclusion...

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Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by aidenn0 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:16AM (#25697433)
Looking at some of the examples:

Version 1 is word-salad, but the word salad usually includes the subject and object of the sentence.

Version 2 pretty much always gets a feasible sentence, but sometimes the sentence is completely unrelated to the original.

Which one is more playable is a bit subjective. DeepL looks quite a bit better than either of the google-translate versions though.

The DeepL version definitely looks far better than 1 or 2.

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