stoutfellow (
stoutfellow) wrote2011-06-12 05:13 pm
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This is a problem that wouldn't have occurred to me: automatic translation, as currently conceived, relies on statistical analysis of large quantities of pre-existing translation - but bad automatic translation throws bad data into the mix, and makes further automatic translation worse.
Can't win for losing, some days.
Can't win for losing, some days.