Google built a system to translate poetry with metre and rhyme intact. The experiment exposed exactly where machine translation stops being translation.
Posts with tag.: human translation
Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.
Google translated 16 million words into Hindi, Tamil, Swahili and more for Wikipedia using Google Trends to pick articles and humans to fix the machine drafts.
How linguists are using crowdsourced volunteers to translate low resource languages that machine translation still cannot handle, from Haiti to intelligence work.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.