[Digestion] Cross Language Linking (was RE: Biogas Groups)

[Markus Schlattmann]

Hi Paul and Al,

> I guess one approach is for individuals to use website translators to 
> look at the archives to get an idea of what is going on, so that it 
> then becomes their task/responsibility to chase up bits that don’t 
> translate (hopefully interesting bits, and possibly translation 
> problems, would be transferred across). This raises the question about 
> differences between translation tools? I, like David, am monolingual 
> so my test would be to start with something in English, translate to 
> Spanish (or whatever) then translate back again to see how it compared 
> to the original using the various translation options (I guess I can 
> try it on “The Beginners Guide” above!).
>
>

Yes, I can see in my log files that the google translator already is 
used for my german pages for example.

I think it would be quite easy to write a program getting a content from 
a website, passing it to the translator and storing the translation in a 
database to display the result on a website.

Regarding the quality I must say: I did my "Summary"-chapter of my PhD 
with google. It had to be done quickly, since I had a deadline and 
anything else was finished, but the summary in English language still 
was missing. The translator delivered almost a word-by-word translation. 
It was even worse than my writings here, I think! ;-) I made a quick 
correction, but I'm not very proud of it. Now it's under review...we 
will see...

I think someone may get the general sense using the translator, but in 
detail there's a big lack. Especially if you have information on legal 
or health stuff this should not be used.

Translating and translating back would be indeed a good idea for seeing 
how much the result differs from the original.

Markus

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