Google: `I love Armenians' Translated as `I love Turkey'
by Armenian Weekly
February 18, 2012
http://www.armenianw...2/02/18/google/
A screenshot of Google's translation of 'I love Armenians'
BOSTON, Mass. (A.W.) - Google's online translation service
(translate.google.com) is translating `yes sirum em hayerin' (I love
Armenians) to `I love Turkey.'
The mistranslation was pointed out to us by Lebanese Armenian activist
Serouj Baghdassarian. The Armenian Weekly has verified it.
One IT expert we contacted said, `The mistranslation not only
constitutes a breach of professionalism, but suggests the possibility
of malice. I wonder how many other phrases are translated in a similar
manner.' He added, `Google must immediately rectify this problem and
provide an explanation.'
Google: `I love Armenians' Translated as `I love Turkey'
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Posted 19 February 2012 - 10:50 AM
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Posted 19 February 2012 - 10:55 AM
I did look into it, and the translation was done properly. I guess they fixed it.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 11:15 AM
GOOGLE EXPLAINS TRANSLATION GLITCH
Armenian Weekly
February 22, 2012
BOSTON, Mass. (A.W.)--Concerned internet users this week initiated
an online campaign after one activist, Lebanese-Armenian Serouj
Baghdassarian, noticed that Google's online translation service
(translate.google.com) was mistakenly translating "ÔµÕ½ Õ½Õ"O~@Õ¸O~BÕ´
Õ¥Õ´ Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¥O~@Õ"Õ¶" ("I love Armenians") to "I love Turkey."
A screenshot of Google's translation of 'I love Armenians,' which
has since been corrected.
"Google Translate is an automated system. It makes guesses based on
patterns gleaned from large bodies of human-translated text. It doesn't
do word-by-word dictionary-style translation," Jason Freidenfelds,
from Google's global communications and public affairs department,
told the Armenian Weekly.
"So sometimes [the service] makes mistakes which seem obvious to a
human translator, but aren't to our machine-learning system," he added.
The translation was corrected by late afternoon on Feb. 19, following
a widespread report of the problem that first appeared in the Armenian
Weekly.
Armenian Weekly
February 22, 2012
BOSTON, Mass. (A.W.)--Concerned internet users this week initiated
an online campaign after one activist, Lebanese-Armenian Serouj
Baghdassarian, noticed that Google's online translation service
(translate.google.com) was mistakenly translating "ÔµÕ½ Õ½Õ"O~@Õ¸O~BÕ´
Õ¥Õ´ Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¥O~@Õ"Õ¶" ("I love Armenians") to "I love Turkey."
A screenshot of Google's translation of 'I love Armenians,' which
has since been corrected.
"Google Translate is an automated system. It makes guesses based on
patterns gleaned from large bodies of human-translated text. It doesn't
do word-by-word dictionary-style translation," Jason Freidenfelds,
from Google's global communications and public affairs department,
told the Armenian Weekly.
"So sometimes [the service] makes mistakes which seem obvious to a
human translator, but aren't to our machine-learning system," he added.
The translation was corrected by late afternoon on Feb. 19, following
a widespread report of the problem that first appeared in the Armenian
Weekly.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 11:18 AM
I'm having difficulty accepting this explanation! Could have been the work of an employee as a prank.
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