Human to klingon translator software#

Human to klingon translator software#

So, right away, if you train your translation software on that, it'll mistranslate 'Denmark' as Qo'noS (and vice versa). These aren't exactly parallel: the Klingon Hamlet is the prince of Qo'noS, the Klingon Homeworld, instead of Denmark. restored Shakespeare plays, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. The largest bilingual works in Klingon are the two. It's simply because there isn't enough parallel text. The reason this can't work for Klingon is not because Klingon grammar is complicated (in fact, it's much simpler than most Earth languages), nor is it because it has limited vocabulary (one can always make up words from more basic units). That's a bit simplified, but basically that's the idea. This means that you take a large body of text in the source language, high-quality translations of the same documents into the target language (done by human professionals) and feed them into your translator, which through magic (ahem, machine learning) acquires the ability to perform the same kind of transformation on new text. The way most modern translation software works is through machine learning on a massive parallel corpus. I'm the reason why Google Translate doesn't support Klingon. 'Why doesn't Google Translate support Klingon?' This question comes up every so often on the Internet, and the answer is. (due to length restriction on Twitter, it was spread over 14 posts.

In a long message on Twitter of 16 January 2019, klingonist David Yonge-Mallo explained why Google does not translate Klingon. What not everyone realizes is that it takes Klingon-speaking volunteers to translate and type the Klingon. Google Google is a well-known internet search engine that is availiable in Klingon (1). This topic has been added to the todo-list.