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1. Grégoire Détrez Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts

   Is Google sexist ? http://ur1.ca/856cq !linguists

   
   about 4 months ago from web
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   • M Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts

     Could just be confirmation bias; I wonder if there are any counter-examples...

     about 4 months ago
   • M Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts

     ...but it would be cool if Google translate was clever enough to recognise such ambiguous cases and offer multiple translations.

     about 4 months ago
   • unhammer Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts , M

     It's not clever, it's just based on real-world data. It will offer multiple translations if the data contains multiple examples

     about 4 months ago
   • M Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts , unhammer

     I realise that. By 'clever' I mean 'trained sufficiently'.

     about 4 months ago
   • unhammer Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts , M

     @archena … and on further testing, it does: http://ur1.ca/85a5e (click the subject-verb chunk)

     about 4 months ago
   • unhammer Linguists - for language workers and enthusiasts , M

     @archena guess so. And it's a valid concern since most people never go beyond defaults.

     about 4 months ago