Saturday, June 11, 2011

Suresh Raina = Sachin Tendulkar Says Google Translate


Now this is funny. When you try to translate ‘Suresh Raina is god’ to Serbian, and translate it
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back to English using Google Translate, name Suresh Raina gets replaced by Sachin Tendulkar.
This is strange as proper names are not changed by any translators, and to see this happening from Google’s translation engine is bad.
Mostly the intelligent engines like a Translator tries to imitate the human brain, and do the prediction of a new profile to the already existing profiles. Mostly it uses techniques like Support Vector Machines, Linear Machines or Neural Networks. The engine is trained in a certain data, and is used to predict the future goals.
The details on the Google Translation engine is not known, but from the face it looks to me like the engine is not well trained on the Indian names.
You might want to try it now. And I hope Google makes the relevant change to its algorithm.

1 comment:

  1. Google's changed it now. Boy, are they fast. :)

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