[Baypiggies] Using Google translate web page programmaticaly

[Kelly Yancey]

Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> I saw a talk at Google Developer Day by a researcher working on their
> translation team.  Take a Google-sized amount of data, add statical
> translation techniques and a bunch of Ph.D's and get almost halfway
> decent translations :)
> 
> -jj
> 

Sorry to beleaguer the point, but here is the translated version of your 
message (English->Japanese->English):

	Google Talk developers saw day by researchers working on their
	Translation Team. Google's size is the amount of data to take
	additional statical
	Many translation techniques and Ph.D 's and almost halfway to
	Get Translations decent

And no, the Japanese* intermediate text didn't make any more sense 
without knowing what the original text was trying to say.  And it lost 
the "voice" of your message.

Machine translation sounds like a great idea, but it currently doesn't 
appear to be much better than when I used to laugh at the crud 
Babblefish was spitting out ten years ago.

Seriously, I would think that no translation would be better than a 
nonsensical translation.  Of course, my original suggestion stands: if 
you absolutely need a translation, hire a pro.
Human translation > no translation > machine-generated translation.

Kelly

* I picked Japanese since that was the original poster's request.
   Certainly machine translation between Indo-European languages would
   fare better.

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Douglas Sims <doug at apley.com> wrote:
>>  The Goog just released this:
>>
>>  http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2008/03/introducing-ajax-language-api-tools-for.html
>>
>>
>>  Douglas Sims
>>  Doug at Apley.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>  > Hello,
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Have any Baypiggies used the Google translate web page
>>  > programmaticaly?
>>  >
>>  > I wish to access this url
>>  >   * http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=ja|en
>>  >    (where the from language and to language may vary from request to
>>  > request)
>>  >   * submit a text string to be translated
>>  >   * retrieve the translation or status indicating the translation was
>>  > not possible.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > If anyone with some web  programming experience have some information
>>  > on how to do this from Python, please reply.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Thanks
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