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ContentTranslation does not translate accented words correctly
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The tool is always messing up translations containing accented letters. The most recent example is this:

  • Expected result: 'polynomial' -> 'polinômio'
  • Actual result: 'polynomial' -> 'polinˆ omio'

This happened using Firefox 50, on https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?page=Rational+root+theorem&from=en&to=pt&targettitle=Teorema+das+ra%C3%ADzes+racionais

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He7d3r created this task.Dec 11 2016, 12:53 PM
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Amire80 moved this task from Needs Triage to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.Jun 28 2017, 12:12 PM
He7d3r mentioned this in T96165: Learn from user corrections to avoid editing the same term again and again.Jan 11 2018, 8:05 PM
Nikerabbit subscribed.Jan 12 2018, 7:31 AM

Which machine translation provider does this?

KartikMistry subscribed.Jan 12 2018, 8:17 AM
He7d3r added a comment.Jan 14 2018, 9:54 PM

Yandex.Translate

• santhosh subscribed.Jan 15 2018, 6:57 AM

The web interface of Yandex API seems to be correct:

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Arrbee subscribed.Jan 15 2018, 11:26 AM

Please note, this may be due to the Yandex translation API version that is used in Content Translation. We are currently using the officially released version of the API, while Yandex's web interface uses an improved technology that is being beta-tested. This could be the reason why the correct translation is shown on the web interface. Thanks.

• santhosh added a comment.Jan 16 2018, 6:16 AM

I used the sentence from the source article mentioned in the bug report - Rational root theorem, and confirmed that wrong result is from Yandex API

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So, this is not a bug resulting from CX codebase but from Yandex MT api. Perhaps this fragment having a wrong translation in the MT training data in Yandex.

• Petar.petkovic closed this task as Invalid.Mar 4 2018, 1:08 AM
• Petar.petkovic moved this task from Bugs to MT on the ContentTranslation board.
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