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Originally Posted by HarryT
Trouble is, though, that although it's easy for a human being to tell whether "No." is a negative reply or an abbreviation for the word "number", it's not so easy for a machine.
Eg, consider the following:
"Are there 4 books there?"
"No. 5."
And:
"Beethoven's symphony No.5 is my favourite."
This really isn't a situation in which a custom dictionary will help.
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An excellent example why good machine translation is so damn hard to do. The human brain processes such an awful lot of context.
(Sorry for derailing, Doitsu,)