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8 May 2024

An editorial illustration of a printed menu lying on a wooden bistro table with a single dish illustration above it, glyphs from multiple writing systems flowing softly across the composition

Multilingual menus: where machine translation gets it wrong, and how we catch it

Machine translation is good enough for prose and dangerous for menus. Dishes are full of proper nouns, regional terms and cultural context that NMT systems mis-handle in specific, repeatable ways. Here is what we have seen go wrong, why, and the review gate ORDR builds in.

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Francesco Boffa

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