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Interesting functionalities

17 April 20148 January 2013 by Bertrand Meyer

Admittedly the number of people who will find the following funny, or of any interest at all, is pretty limited, so it is a good bet that about 99.86% of the faithful readers of this blog can safely wait for the next post. To appreciate the present one you must be a French-speaking nerd with … Read more

Fun with Bayes

12 December 201424 September 2011 by Bertrand Meyer

Statistical translation techniques are great but the examples cited show their limits. I truly hope that in the future they can be combined with more exact techniques based on sound linguistic theory.

PGT-PPP (Pretty Good Translation, Pretty Poor Privacy)

17 April 201418 May 2010 by Bertrand Meyer

Google Translate and other translation sites are great tools to facilitate our life, especially when dealing with languages we know superficially or not at all. But maybe there is a way to provide the service without opening such a large window on the detailed questions that occupy our minds?