From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_05 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7f5eed426d6145 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-19 08:15:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc04.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3d88d8bf$1@giga.realtime.net> <1032380280.239075@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3d89d3a4$1@giga.realtime.net> <5kli9.14641$t%6.6716@nwrddc02.gnilink.net> Subject: OT: Russian to English translator? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:15:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.157.178.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc04.gnilink.net 1032448524 141.157.178.79 (Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:15:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:15:24 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29178 Date: 2002-09-19T15:15:24+00:00 List-Id: Back when the first automatic translation programs were developed for natural languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish etc.), one of the tests they tried was first doing an automatic English-to-Russian translation of a common idiomatic phrase, then feed the output (sight unseen) into an automatic Russian-to-English translator. The idea was to see how much distortion results from the two translations. When they tried this with the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" it came back "Blind idiot" When they tried the English-to-Russian-to-English translation of the Biblical passage "The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak." they got "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."