11/27/08 Machine Translation comparison

{SSS_008.01}
THE ARTIFICIAL RULE creates one path.
Babelfish E->C: 人为规则创造一个道路。 (10 characters)
Reverse Babelfish: The artificial rule creates a path.
Reverse Google (of Babelfish): To create a man-made rules of the road.

THE ARTIFICIAL RULE creates one path.
Google E>C: 人工创建一个法治的道路。 (11 characters)
Reverse Google: Artificial creation of a path of the rule of law.
Reverse Babelfish (of Google): The man-power founds a government by law the path.

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Reviewing SSS_008.01

{SSS_008.01}
THE ARTIFICIAL RULE creates one path.
人为规则创造一个道路。 (babelfish/systran rule-based translation)
The artificial rule creates a path. (babelfish/systran reverse translation)

To create a man-made rules of the road. (Google Chinese->English translation)

人为 - artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort

规则 - rule / regulation / rules and regulations

创造 - to create / to bring about / to produce

一个 - a / an

道路 - road / path / way

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The artificial rule creates one path.

人工法治创建一个路径。 (Google statistical translation)

Create a path of the rule of law. (Google reverse translation)
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(for later analysis)

(soon:)

Update 2008: Time to check for changes in the machine translation algorithms

Are the Shanghai-Shakespeare experimental sonnets still "reversible" by the SYSTRAN rule-based algorithm?

Time to revisit this experiment ... (in progress, more soon)

GOOGLE TRANSLATION UPDATE

24 FEB 2006 / GOOGLE CHANGE

The first set of sonnets of this project

no longer reverse-translate (English->Chinese->English)

using Google's (apparently changed from Systran) algorithm.

(NOTE: These sonnets still reverse-translate

using the machine translation at babelfish.altavista.com)

More info after I explore the change ...

Shanghai-Shakespeare Sonnets PHASE 1 (Index 1-8)

06 NOV 05 SSS_001 : A PRETTY SHANGHAI GIRL ... 13 NOV 05 SSS_002: TWO CULTURES FLOW ... 20 NOV 05 SSS_003: THE OLD STYLE SOFTWARE PROGRAM ... 27 NOV 05 SSS_004: THE SHANGHAI GIRL ASKS ME ... 04 DEC 05 SSS_005: THE WORLD INTRUDES ... 11 DEC 05 SSS_006: WE CROSS OUR POND ... 18 DEC 05 SSS_007: THE SHANGHAI GIRL ASKS WHY ... 25 DEC 05 (10 CHINESE CHARACTERS/LINE CONSTRAINT) SSS_008: THE ARTIFICIAL RULE ...