Re:Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation
by thomasahle on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:12AM
(#30601538)
To your point, Google translate still has issues translating words for every day objects between Danish and English. Probably the same issue arrises for most smaller languages with less parallel text.
Just yesterday I wanted to know what an "urtekniv" is called in English. Google translate just returned the word untranslated. Ironically my second try was to google "urtekniv engelsk" and I got an answer from a dictionary: https://www.wordsense.eu/urtekniv/
Maybe Google Translate should accept they don't have the data to learn stuff like this naturally, and just inject some dictionaries into the mix.
Just yesterday I wanted to know what an "urtekniv" is called in English. Google translate just returned the word untranslated. Ironically my second try was to google "urtekniv engelsk" and I got an answer from a dictionary: https://www.wordsense.eu/urtekniv/
Maybe Google Translate should accept they don't have the data to learn stuff like this naturally, and just inject some dictionaries into the mix.