{"id":6382,"date":"2015-09-05T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2015-09-05T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:45:57","slug":"bing-translator-shows-its-cluelessness-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"Bing Translator shows its cluelessness again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog recently drew attention (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6366\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>) to the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bing_Translator\">Microsoft&#8217;s Bing Translator<\/a> tool had difficulty distinguishing English from Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems this is not the only two languages with which it has trouble since it also cannot differentiate between Dutch and English, as per the following screenshot of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HallenFC\/status\/640183806239109120\">tweet<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hallenfootballclub.co.uk\/\">Hallen FC<\/a> from my Twitter feed this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/09\/bing_nl.png\" alt=\"screenshot showing Bing Translator confusing English and Dutch\" width=\"527\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/09\/bing_nl.png 527w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/09\/bing_nl-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the rest of the Beast of Redmond&#8217;s software offerings are as reliable as Bing Translator. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog recently drew attention (posts passim) to the fact that Microsoft&#8217;s Bing Translator tool had difficulty distinguishing English from Norwegian. It now seems this is not the only two languages with which it has trouble since it also cannot differentiate between Dutch and English, as per the following screenshot of a tweet from Hallen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17,9],"tags":[40,22,23],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-bristol","tag-language","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}