help me please

ilauzirika

ilauzirika

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Hi all,

My mum collects books from different parts of the world, yesterday some friends gave us a book and said that it was from northern europe, but they didn't know which language it was written in. We didn't know were to ask and it came to my mind that dvxuser is a worldwide forum and someone must know, so......

Looking at this image here does anyone know which is the language of the book?

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thanks to all you
 
Yeah, pretty sure it is Swedish, I just googled a couple of words and it came up with a bunch of Swedish sites.
 
thanks to all, we were thinking swedish or finnish... after your responses and doing some more research we are sure that this is swedish.

Again thanks to all for the quick response.

Iñaki
 
word for word in english (except words in bold, unable to translate)


Christmas ar a pysselhelg. Whole the family meet and we have time that umgas and gora fun things tilisammans. In the have the book father you tips and series of pa masses of fun julpyssel, risk, is playing, recipe and spannande lasning. Losninger to streets and klurigheter find you pa hand 32.


I onskar you all a right kul Christmas!
 
Yea, after doing some research on the author's name and then plugging the words into a swedish -> english translater it is quite apparent that it definitely is Swedish (though the translator didn't prove to be any better than Anhar's translation)
 
If mikko says finnish totally discarded,
Then everything points to swedish.

thanks everyone problem solved.
 
Online translator = (usually) crap....... I remember translating a whole page from a ferry company. The translation to spanish instead of saying

"Book your ferry travel with us and you'll start your holiday break as soon as you leave home."

it said

"Reserve su viaje en ferry con nosotros y que el programa empezará a romper sus vacaciones desde el momento en que salir de casa."

something along the lines of

"book your ferry travel with us and it'll start to break your holidays from the moment you leave home"

This is a simple error, the translator changes the order of the prhase and puts break in the start of the sentence changing the whole meaning of it. A person that knows english would obviously detect the error but a non speaker............
 
I believe that most translators are word for word dictionary lookups. They don't take into consideration idioms, sentence construction, etc.

It would require a good deal of natural language AI processing to properly translate, I know it is being worked on, but I wonder what kind of success they are having and how long it will be before we, the general public, have access to any of the fruits of their work.
 
NLP is a very intense field of research (take a look at TREC), its closely related to Information Retrieval and that field effectively gave birth to google,but damn those google guys keep there algorithms top secret...
 
I used to dabble in NLP many years ago, back in the days before the web. I didn't have access to a lot of information, just played with the concepts on my own ... was a lot of fun, very difficult. I had a modicum of success, but nothing to really write home about.

My crowning achievment was a closed system that consisted of objects that were defined by their geometric shape and color. For example it would randomly generate a large red cube, a smaller yellow cube, a green sphere and a purple pyramid. You could enter commands like ("Pick up the red cube", or "Pick up the larger cube") either would result in the system grabbing the red cube. You could then follow up with a command like "Put it under the sphere" or "Put it to the left of the green object") and it would do so.

It was impressive enough at the time (I was around 14 at the time) and my family was dutifully impressed. But it was a closed world, with very specific objects and a limited number of commands that could actually be performed (You couldn't tell it to split the cube into two pyramids, for example).

It was fun, but I quickly reached my personal limits (not to mention I was doing all this on a Commodore 64, so had system limitations as well). I then dumped that project and wrote a Turbo Pascal interpreter that ran in Commodore's Basic. So I would write, or import, true Borland Turbo Pascal code and it would be interpreted by the Commodore Basic interpreter. It was slower than molassis, but it worked beautifully.

Ah, I miss the days where the pure joy of discovery was enough to keep me up for days at a stretch writing, testing and re-writing code. :)
 
Larry, damn thats impressive!

Man, I wish my experience of NLP/IR was as joyful, we had one module, I created from scratch an entire IR system, it generated over 2.5 million calculated words, the first system was a total mess took over 18 hours processing time (in 2007) peeved off, I scraped the whole system and re-wrote the entire thing, the new system did the same job in TEN minutes!

haha, my markers said it was "industrial strength" :D

never again..

and you know the insult of it all??

most everyone else used opensource (deveopled by other Universities) :(
 
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