Re: [tlug] Free program translates Euro languages to/from English

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Michael Smith wrote:

> That's another problem with most other machine translation tools:
> They don't preserve any of the amiguity of the original text. For
> example, 会う (au) could be translated as both "meet" and "see".
> If most tools find a word with multiple possible translations,
> they just choose one and put that into the translated output. I
> would guess that in most cases, they are just choosing the most
> common translation of the word. I would much rather they just
> showed me all the possible translations.
>  

Re: "I would much rather they just showed me all the possible translations"

Hear-hear!!!

Lyle