Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 4, 2022 15:25 UTC (Sat) by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896)
In reply to: Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin by Wol
Parent article: Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

> If you limit machine translation to areas it works well (mostly technical, I guess), then great, but once you start using it to translate prose, or even worse poetry, it's going to have a very hard time of it.

In UI frameworks, the text tends to technical and thus easier to handle. Modern machine language translators are now doing a better job at prose, too. They are obviously not as good as a human, but they are much better than being completely unable to access the information entirely. There's an argument that poetry isn't fully translatable, even by humans fluent in both languages... I don't see why that limitation should mean we can't use the technology in other ways.

I'd rather have half a loaf than starve.