[sldev] Autotranslation build to try out

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi folks,

A good place to take this conversation is SNOW-93, where improvements
to this feature are being discussed:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-93

Thanks
Rob


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jo Grant<jo_grant at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Jim Oser writes:
>>I want to type in English and have my friends, see the German.
> It's very tempting, but it breaks one of the "golden rules" of Machine
> Translation: you *never* translate outgoing text, only incoming text.
> MT is "pull" technology, not "push" technology. It should always be invoke
> by the reader, not the writer. Quite simply: if you do not speak the target
> language, you do not know what you are saying. There are many humorous
> stories of MT driven misunderstandings. Quite often, as well, the listener
> will speak the source language better than MT speaks the target language.
>
> Lawson English wrote:
>>Gack my suggestion for "any" url merely compounds the issue you bring
>>up.
> I normally deal in a business context with business sensitive information.
> Obviously that's not 100% applicable to Second Life. I mainly wanted to
> raise people's awareness. It's an easy thing to forget.
> I think there are ways this could be done. At a base level, the users
> themselves are responsible for ensuring that they adhere to the ToS. If the
> default service provided was secure, than it's a fair feature to add.
> (Google probably have a clause somewhere that specifies they record only the
> linguistic pattern of what is submitted, and not the actual identifiable
> data, or something like that.) And an extension to add in your own
> translation service is also OK when coupled with static text or a prompt
> warning them to make sure the service they use doesn't do anything with the
> data. Basically you shift the responsibility from the software provider to
> the user.
> I think it would get past most reasonable legal departments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jo
>
>
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