Comments on Dick & Garlick: Automatic Hinglish

thanks for this Hamlet omlate.rajesh

2008-06-02T18:45:00.000-07:00

thanks for this Hamlet omlate.

rajesh

Good thing is: they want to improve, very few comp...

2008-05-13T05:31:00.000-07:00

Good thing is: they want to improve, very few companies work in that direction.

You have almost stopped writing, though whenever you do I get to know through the feed :)

Regards,

Debashish

Sure, it's a challenging task but Google Translate...

2008-05-07T05:38:00.000-07:00

Sure, it's a challenging task but Google Translates fails with the simplest of sentences, suggesting it's been put together by someone with no knowledge of Hindi grammar. For instance, these translations:

I kicked him
मैं उस से किक
I killed him
मैं उस से मारे गए
He kicked me
उन्होंने मुझ से किक

I tried many more simple sentences and finally got one correct

I hope the support improves over time, and this is...

2008-05-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

I hope the support improves over time, and this is definietly a challenging task. One of the things I've noticed when doing cyclic translations (translate A->B->A->B....) is that there is a lot of distortion in the meaning even for small phrases, irrespective of the language.
On a side note, a small request - could you offer complete feeds so that the posts can be read directly from a feed