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Suggest Translations To Google 
By: Philipp Lenssen 2007-02-21 When you use Google to translate a website into any of the Beta translations Google provides (Chinese, Russian, Japanese and more)... ...and you then hover over any of the translated sentences, you can find a link reading "Suggest a better translation."* Clicking it slides open a suggestion box where you can enter your own translation. (Send it, and Google echoes a simple "Thank you for contributing your translation suggestion to Google Translate.") My guess is that Google uses these submissions to either automatically implement some "wisdom of crowds" into their machine translation efforts, or more likely, that they'll treat this as a kind of bug report with which they can better judge their translation efforts, potentially tweaking their translation code. At the moment, translating from e.g. Chinese to English often results in poor, completely cryptic texts - more than just "there's a funny grammar error or two here" the translation makes you wonder "just what is this text about?". It may be award-winning technology today, but that doesn't make it good enough yet to be really usable. *I'm not sure if this feature is new. -Thanks Keith Chan!- Comments Tag: Google Translate Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views & news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped. |
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