Translate a website, roll over translated text, type in better translation.

http://gspy.blogspot.com/2007/02/help-improve-googles-translation.html

Help Google translate your own website!

I don't know if it's new, but it's cool ;-)
Anyway, I noted that if you submit somethig, it will be send to http://translate.google.com/translate_suggestion

I really hope they relaunch translation soon. The Google way...

Very nice! But where does this appear? Where do you roll over translated text?

Sorry. I see: only in BETA languages. But still nice, and interesting. Are Google gradually coming to believe in the wisdom of crowds, a la Wikipedia, or have they been developing some nifty techniques to tell the good human interventions from the bad?

that is a good feature. i wonder how it'll be implemented. surely google won't give up there machine translation effort. because that is some good research!

This is simply called annotation. It's as old as the linguistic approach to translation via machines. However, Google's heavy interest in SMT, a purely automated approach, would suggest that this is only an error/quality checking tool. If they were in fact to incorporate suggestions, then they would be using a linguistic approach that runs counter to their pure SMT initiatives as outlined by Norvig last fall in a public presentation.

Also have the bugs, that spam bulk suggestion can change the translate. If the suggestion not credited, risk.

For example, use many suggestion translate a english sentence "Oh my God" to chinese words as the meaning "I fuck you".

What will happened?

Doesn't seem to work with japanese-to-english...

Japanese/Korean<->English translations don't use Google's statistical algos.