[smc-discuss] Malayalam Automatic translation

[V. Sasi Kumar]

On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 00:59 -0700, Tom Vellaringattu wrote:
> Wonderfool
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 17, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Hussain KH <hussain.rachana at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Wonderful!!
> > 
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> > Yesterday I received a Malayalam message from my friend. I tried the
> > google auto translation. The  message and its translation are pasted
> > here. 
> > 
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> > "പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട ഹുസൈൻ മാഷിന്, 
> > 
> > ഇന്നലെ ഹുസൈൻ മാഷെ വിളിച്ചു സംസാരിക്കണമെന്നു തോന്നിയിരുന്നു.. ഫോൺ
> > വിളിച്ചപ്പോൾ കിട്ടുന്നില്ല.. എന്താണെന്നറിയില്ല നമ്പർ മാറിയതാണോന്നും
> > അറിയൂല.. നമ്പർ ഒന്നു കൂടെ തന്നാൽ സന്തോഷം... :)"
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > "Hussain favorite ture, 
> > 
> > Nobody has told Hussein appeared yesterday called the phone is not
> > getting called, Man .. .. .. No. No. മാറിയതാണോന്നും അറിയൂല lose the
> > joy with one ... :)"
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> > Friends,
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> > CDac, Thiruvananthapuram has been trying to develop algorithms for
> > automatic translation for Malayalam for a decade and often they were
> > telling in public seminars that they have achieved 50% or 60% (as in
> > the case of Malayalam OCR). Many money and talents have been spent
> > for the research. I was telling from the very beginning that
> > Malayalam is not a language like English of French and the efforts
> > and methodology should be completely re-checked and redefined, other
> > wise you are not going to achieve a satisfactory result in hundred
> > years. I think Google is also travelling in the same wrong
> > direction.

I am reminded of the story of the first machine translation from English
to French and back. The sentence, "The spirit is willing but the flesh
is weak" became "The wine is good but the meat is rotten" :-)

Regards,
Sasi

-- 
Dr. V. Sasi Kumar
Scientist (Retd)
Centre for Earth Science Studies
PB No. 7250
Thuruvikkal PO
Thiruvananthapuram 695031
India
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