Re: Google Translate

I started translating new strings in Pontoon this morning I also have
two cents about Google Translate.

At first the results seemed rubbish, but for longer texts they are
surprisingly good. However Google does not respect our terminology and
style, which makes me a little nervous about these machine suggestions
being submitted without checks. The more they are shown as 100 % match
in machinery.

My personal workflow is to quickly walk trough the new strings, as a
stretch submit those that have very close match from the translation
memory (e.g. were moved or slightly reworded), and then roll up my
sleeves for the actual work on the rest. The Google Translate entries in
the machinery disturb this flow by being shown as 100% match, so I am
actually worried I will do the mistake myself.

Matjaž, can we please remove the percentage from MT entries completely,
plus sort them to the end of the list in machinery, below any more or
less accurate matches from TM or MS terminology? Then one can
distinguish MT from TM just by the presence of the green number, without
actually reading the name of the origin. Moving them to the bottom of
the list can reduce the risk from the paragraph above, that someone
would blindly suggest or even approve MT results without proper check.

Wow, this e-mail got a lot longer than I expected. I like the quality of
new MT for quite a portion of the strings. It's not the quality we want
to have in the product, but somewhere it's so good, that it makes me
worry we would stop properly checking it and half-blindly accept
whatever it produces.


Dne 21. 10. 18 v 8:38 Matjaz Horvat napsal(a):
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:21 PM Emin Mastizada <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The best
>> part of Microsoft Translation was that, It wasn't machine translation, as I
>> remembet, it was Microsoft's own translations for projects like Windows and
>> etc.
> No, Microsoft translations actually come from a different service -
> Microsoft Terminology - and we still use that:
> https://www.microsoft.com/language/
>
> You can find those translations marked as "Microsoft" in Machinery.
>
> -Matjaž
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