What is simplified English?

Subject: What is simplified English?
From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:37:53 -0400


David Neeley reported: <<I have an extensive experience with machine translation (between English and Russian, as it happens). Following the tenets of simplified English makes this process surprisingly effective, although I wouldn't recommend it for technical manuals, legal documents, or anything of critical importance. In my case, it is for correspondence.>>

Excellent point. I'm told by friends who do translation that one benefit of simplified English is that it can greatly facilitate machine translation--specifically, computer-assisted translation rather than fully automated translation--because the more limited number of sentence forms that are available makes it easier for the software to parse the sentence, and thus offers the translator fewer choices (thus a faster choice) when there are alternative interpretations.

Since I still translate entirely "by hand", I can't confirm this personally, but it sure sounds reasonable.

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References:
What is Simplified English?: From: A.H.
What is Simplified English?: From: Geoff Hart
Re: What is Simplified English?: From: David Neeley

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