John Van Kerk's Blog (3)

I have worked as a free-lance translator on some interesting projects from a text in the field of insurance to business letters and an article on De Stijl, a Dutch art movement. I am not sure if a complete machine translation program would have given me good results. Continue

I have lately started to study text mining. This had led me think about text mining as a tool for lexicographers. I would love to hear from computer science specialists to see if this would be possible.
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I downloaded a free translation program named TRANSWIZ from Download.com. This is a perfect example of a dictionary translation program. It has no mechanism for resolving ambiguities. In my opinion the only virtue of this program is that a younger generation can see what my colleagues were doing in the area of machine translation.Here are some interesting transformations that take place. A: La casa blanca. B: The house white. This program has a dictionary building section but there is no way in… Continue