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MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text

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53 pointsArtWomb9 comments

Here are a few more examples from the en-fr dataset in case you are interested:

  240 There are some nice JVM languages like Scala and Clojure.   Il y a quelques langages JVM sympas comme Scala et Clojure. 
  244 Would anyone here actually register their firearms if a bill passes making registration mandatory   Est-ce que quelqu'un ici enregistrerait reellement ses armes à feux si une loi passe rendant l'enregistrement obligatoire 
  348 Of course Adam and Eve would have belly buttons.    Bien sûr, Adam et Eve avaient des nombrils.
  658 I get their order out, and she starts claiming that the pizza isn’t cut.    J'obtiens leur commande, et elle commence à se plaindre parce que la pizza n'est pas coupée.  
  698 Why does Cici's Pizza advertise so much around here when the nearest one is in Morgantown?  Pourquoi Cici's Pizza fait-elle autant de publicité ici, quand la plus proche est à Morgantown?
  899 I am for the truth, not your rhetoric or anyone else’s. Je suis pour la vérité, pas pour ta rhétorique ou celle de quelqu'un d'autre.    
  966 Every dog I have had appologizes when they get stepped on   Chaque chien que j'ai eu a reçu des excuses quand ils se sont fait marcher dessus

In general, the level of noise (grammar / spelling) seems to be what you'd expect from reddit.

Speaking of "noisy text", is it really necessary to require javascript access to read that blurb.

-- p.s. to other script averse --

https://github.com/pmichel31415/mtnt http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epmichel1/hosting/mtnt-emnlp.pdf

Sadly, I am mostly monolingual :(

One neat aspect of "noisy" text is that deviations from prescribed grammar conveys so much personality and tone and all that good stuff. If I write "Ummmmmmmm, dude, that's like totally cray (IMO)" a strictly correct english to english translation could be "That is totally crazy in my opinion, my friend" but there's so much lost in translation.

Can anyone multilingual comment on whether the examples listed keep that kind of nuance in translation?

If they named it Translation by Machine of Noisy Text then the abbreviation would have been TMNT. (As in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) Missed opportunity.

There should be a whole industry around this, like naming prescription drugs.

There would be an industry around it if there was an incentive to produce titles like that. But most authors probably want to avoid cutesy pop-culture-referential names because it signals unprofessionalism.

I think it depends on the wildly on the field. MRI has techniques named things like GRAPPA and CAIPIRINHA which are gloriously tortured backronyms, and there is something of a competition to come up with good ones.

That's just being naive to the effects of good marketing then.

that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title

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