Lost In Translation: Facebook's Bing Tool Is Faulty
The Bing translation tool introduced by Facebook last month is apparently lost in translation, with successful translation rates of under 50 percent.
The Bing translation tool introduced by Facebook last month gets less than half of the translations correct.
Lexiophiles examined Bing translations in 10 languages, including slang terms, and only one language barely squeaked by 50 percent accuracy, with several coming in at under 10 percent.
“Overall, it is highly likely that the translation Facebook suggests to you will be nonsensical, or, worse even, misleading,” Lexiophiles wrote.
Like Lexophiles says:
As you can see, the end result is far from being perfect, even though the example selected was written in flawless French.
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