RE: Russian to English Machine Translators

["Tsurikov, Nick" <nick.tsurikov@iluka.com>]

Dear Jim, 
As a person speaking both languages fluently I would like to suggest that
you stick with human translators.  I've seen these packages (don't remember
names but there were about three or four).  All of them were very nice for
only one thing - creating a roaring laughter when I read the translation
from Russian to English to my friends here (the 'other way around', English
to Russian is even worse, believe me).  And when the laughter stops and
people try to understand what it all actually meant - there is simply no way
to do it.  Even simple 'personal' things I tried came up as total gibberish,
and when you try to put through something like description of a
technological process - forget it.
This is, of course, my personal experience.  Maybe someone had a better
luck.
Merry Christmas from the middle of summer!
Kind regards
Nick Tsurikov
Eneabba, Western Australia
http://eneabba.net/ <http://eneabba.net/> 


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	james.g.barnes@att.net
[mailto:james.g.barnes@att.net]
		Sent:	Saturday, 23 December 2000 2:44
		To:	Multiple recipients of list
		Subject:	Russian to English Machine Translators

		Good morning, all.

		I am interested if anyone has used one of the Russian to 
		English machine translation software packages.  I 
		volunteer for a foundation that works a Russian 
		institute, and we are looking for an easier way to 
		surmount the language barrier.

		I know that MT will not solve all problems, but would be 
		interested in the experiences that any of you have with 
		such packages.

		I am particularly interested in how well the software 
		has performed for technical/medical communications.

		We have access to skilled human translators.  We are 
		looking at this software as a screening method so that 
		we can utilize the people translators more effectively.

		Thanks,

		Jim Barnes, CHP
		Radiation Safety Officer
		Rocketdyne/Boeing
		james.g.barnes@att.net
	
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