Monthly Archives: December 2010

I may cheat and find a less rebarbative, browser-friendlier romanization of Thai than the one I’m getting from Google. It would help to be able to type rather than cut and paste.

C?h?n s???x s?xng m?? C?h?n s???x m?? s??m t?w C?h?n s???x s??? m?? C?h?n s???x m?? s?ib Japanese, Korean and Chinese tend not to have separate plural forms for nouns, but use classifiers instead, like “rasher” in “five rashers of … Continue reading →

There are, as well you know, two readings for that sentence. What does it look like in Thai? According to Google, like this: ??????????? chases ??? Maybe this gives us a clue about the training corpus. “Every cat loves some … Continue reading →

I asked Google Translate this: I am a cat. You are a cat. He is a cat. We are cats. They are cats. She is a cat. I got back this (romanized version): C?h?n m?w Khu? p?n m?w K?he? p?n … Continue reading →

What can you learn about a language through automatic machine translation? A good testbed for this, I thought, is Thai. I know next to nothing about it. It has tones, but I couldn’t tell you whether it’s isolating or inflecting, … Continue reading →