[HN Gopher] The Languages That Defy Auto-Translate
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       The Languages That Defy Auto-Translate
        
       Author : infodocket
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-03-29 19:10 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | pseingatl wrote:
       | It's amazing how far machine translation has come. I'd say we are
       | now in the same place chess engines were in the 80's before
       | Stockfish, Big Blue and others. For many languages the
       | translations are astonishingly good--not native speaker good, but
       | good enough for government work good. Mandarin approaches 90%
       | accuracy for many kinds of texts; Arabic is hit or miss--either
       | 80-85% or it's missing words so you're down to 30% or worse.
       | German and French are excellent; take a look at deepl.com.
        
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