Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-06-24/Special report
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Arjunaraoc in topic Discuss this story
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In summary Google spent $750,000 doing jack-all. Seems to me that the content translation team (also presenting their work here this week) is primed to do a far better job, taking to heart how completely wrong Google's approach here was. ResMar 02:02, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
- In fairness (though the problems were predictable) it may be money well spent to learn how not to do it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:38, 26 June 2015 (UTC).
- Yes, this is one of the well-known failures which have been considered to design the tool. See m:Machine translation for a list and http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01914 for some short information. --Nemo 08:33, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
- Finally 1808 Google translation project pages on tewiki, that could not be improved were deleted on 5 Feb 2020.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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