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[Tlhingan-hol] reporting errors with Bing translator

De'vID ([email protected])



I understand that several grammarians are involved in Bing translator
and can fix errors?

One particularly egregious one at the moment is that {qavan,} (with
the trailing comma, or with a period or exclamation mark) is
translated as "Hi baby,". Since I sometimes write messages to people
beginning with {qavan,}, I don't want them plugging that into Bing and
getting the wrong idea!

I thought the Bing translator was based on statistical translation, so
I have to wonder where in the corpora we have {qavan,} and "Hi baby,"
in the corresponding translation.

(Without the trailing punctuation, it becomes "Hello how are", which
is still wrong, but less likely to lead to unfortunate
misunderstandings.)

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De'vID

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