{"id":5990,"date":"2012-01-14T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/14\/machine-translation-lets-me-do\/"},"modified":"2012-01-14T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:45:50","slug":"machine-translation-lets-me-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/14\/machine-translation-lets-me-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Translation Lets Me Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a sign of how good computers have gotten that I&#8217;m faintly offended whenever Google Translate fails to come up with something even halfway sensible. I mean, translating a blog post from one language to another is a ridiculously difficult problem, and yet they usually do a passable job. It&#8217;s only when the vanity search turns up something like <a href=\"http:\/\/1p1e3.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/blog-post.html\">this blog post in Hebrew<\/a> that it fails completely, and gives a string of disconnected and incoherent words and phrases.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s to the amazing successes of Google Translate. And if anybody can tell me what in the world that blog post says about my book, I&#8217;d love to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a sign of how good computers have gotten that I&#8217;m faintly offended whenever Google Translate fails to come up with something even halfway sensible. I mean, translating a blog post from one language to another is a ridiculously difficult problem, and yet they usually do a passable job. It&#8217;s only when the vanity search&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/14\/machine-translation-lets-me-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Machine Translation Lets Me Down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}