David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Sumo wrestler headline translation challenge
by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research
December 5, 2010
The following headline, from an article in the June 23, 2010 edition of the Dublin newspaper The Herald, is presented as a machine translation exercise for the reader.
Using your favorite automatic translation software (Babelfish or Google translator or whichever), identify which languages may be the most difficult in which to express this thought:
(Thanks to investigator Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.)
by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research
December 5, 2010
The following headline, from an article in the June 23, 2010 edition of the Dublin newspaper The Herald, is presented as a machine translation exercise for the reader.
Using your favorite automatic translation software (Babelfish or Google translator or whichever), identify which languages may be the most difficult in which to express this thought:
(Thanks to investigator Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.)