Re: Asking for help: Update German translation of NR using LLM

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Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes:

> I thus wonder whether a guy with LLM experience could help with
> updating the German translation of the Notation Reference =E2=80=93 or ra=
ther,
> generating a complete translation from scratch, since the German
> translation is severely outdated.  Today, websites like Google
> Translate provide translations (both German-to-English and
> English-to-German) that are nearly perfect even for quite complicated
> grammatical structures, which still amazes me.

My experience is that such a translation looks nearly perfect, but the
actual content contains hard to spot errors that can even inverse the
meaning of some sections. I tried that for an article of mine and did a
full evaluation. The result was that after I fixed all the errors (I
found), I didn=E2=80=99t actually save time -- despite being the author of =
the
original text: https://www.draketo.de/software/ai-translation-evaluated

The worst errors (completely changed meaning):
https://www.draketo.de/software/ai-translation-evaluated#completely-changed

Finding those errors is extremely hard, because the LLM is great at
fudging the text around the errors such that they sound like a correct
part of the text.

> of technical terms will be mistranslated; we thus have to proofread
> the results (I volunteer for that).

You may actually be faster (and the result better) if you directly
translate the new text with the old translation as reference.

Except if the bottleneck for you is typing speed -- if you can read
English and German side by side much faster than you type one of them,
then an LLM may help by reducing the amount of text you need to type).

Best wishes,
Arne
=2D-=20
Unpolitisch sein
hei=C3=9Ft politisch sein,
ohne es zu merken.
https://www.draketo.de

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