Lost in Translation No More

Tangos Chan over at the China Web 2.0 Review highlights a terrific new Chinese-English/English-Chinese translation site called Yeeyan (译言)that combines Google machine translation and hands-on translating by peers. (The Chinese-to-English just launched days ago). Click over to Fred Wilson's site (A VC) for an example. He gives them props for giving him attribution and a link back. The translator gets a little credit, too--deservedly. Just for yucks, here's what the machine trans version of a recent post looks like.

They're already posting numerous well-polished translations, mostly from English to Chinese, of important bloggers, mostly writing on the tech industry. These guys are going to make it much easier when we launch the Ogilvy digimedia blog soon, which promises to be a totally bilingual blog.

Another translation tool I simply adore is Adsotrans, which was developed by a Canadian feller by the name of David Lancashire, a grad student from Cal Berkeley living in Beijing Shanghai (Brendan informs me that David's now living in Beijing in spirit only--he's not diggin' Shanghai though he's working for the very cool company Mandarin instructional startup ChinesePod.) Adsotrans uses multiple open source dictionaries and allows users to modify annotation. the interface is awesome.

Comments

[Ken Carroll]

Kaiser,

Thx for the mention.

David is locked in a cell here at the ChinesePod factory. We feed him just enough to keep him coding. He feels no pain at this point but he dos squint and grunt from time to time. At the end o' the day t'is a noble thing we do, all this translatin'.

Ken

[Kaiser Kuo]

Hi Ken! Great to hear you're getting full use out of David. He doesn't need much, just let an occasional lime to stave off scurvy. Crack that whip! Hope your marvelous business is flourishing.

[Brendan]

I just took a closer look at that screenshot. I love machine translation -- it makes me feel so much better about the prospects of (a) losing my job to a machine and (b) the coming cyborg wars.

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