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论题张贴者: Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski  Identity Verified
马其顿共和国（前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国）
Local time: 09:52
English英语译成Macedonian马其顿语
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Dec 27, 2024

When we will have new translation contest?

Maria Laura Curzi
Ibrahem Hasan
 
Lingua 5B
Lingua 5B  Identity Verified
波斯尼亚黑塞哥维纳
Local time: 09:52
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成Croatian克罗地亚语
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Post-editing contest Dec 27, 2024

I assume it’ll turn into a post-editing or GPT clean-up contest.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Ibrahem Hasan
 
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski  Identity Verified
马其顿共和国（前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国）
Local time: 09:52
English英语译成Macedonian马其顿语
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主题发起人
Let see Dec 27, 2024

Lingua 5B wrote:

I assume it’ll turn into a post-editing or GPT clean-up contest.


Well, let see. We can compare the results, and see.

Ibrahem Hasan
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
意大利
Local time: 09:52
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成German德语
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Thank you... Dec 27, 2024

but no thanks. For reasons.

P.L.F. Persio
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Christel Zipfel
Ibrahem Hasan
 
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski  Identity Verified
马其顿共和国（前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国）
Local time: 09:52
English英语译成Macedonian马其顿语
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主题发起人
Reasons? Dec 27, 2024

Zea_Mays wrote:

but no thanks. For reasons.


Well, you can't just say for reasons, and not mentioning the reasons.

[Edited at 2024-12-27 18:10 GMT]
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
意大利
Local time: 09:52
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成German德语
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food for thought Dec 27, 2024

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:

Zea_Mays wrote:

but no thanks. For reasons.


Well, you can't just say for reasons, and not mentioning the reasons.


Many here know perfectly what is meant, but to get you started:
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination.html

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski  Identity Verified
马其顿共和国（前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国）
Local time: 09:52
English英语译成Macedonian马其顿语
+ ...
主题发起人
good reasons Dec 27, 2024

Zea_Mays wrote:

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:

Zea_Mays wrote:

but no thanks. For reasons.


Well, you can't just say for reasons, and not mentioning the reasons.


Many here know perfectly what is meant, but to get you started:
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination.html


Well, these are good reasons. With my previous profile here at ProZ I was contestant in two or three contests for my language pair, and all without a winner.

Zea_Mays
 
Daryo
Daryo
英国
Local time: 08:52
Serbian塞尔维亚语译成English英语
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Nothing new there ... Dec 28, 2024

Lingua 5B wrote:

I assume it’ll turn into a post-editing or GPT clean-up contest.


Nothing new there ... already happened, years ago.

see

I lost all interest in translation contests few years ago, when I spotted an entry - a "translation into Serbian" - that was blatantly done by someone who doesn't know the first thing about the Serbian language but used some MT instead, and nothing was done to remove it.

https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it.

and

If it was in the Proz contest, there is actually one fictional profile (GoTrans) that Proz uses to make MT entries (this was explained during the last Translation Day event).
It's a sort of gimmick which is there since quite some time to track I suppose the progress of machine translation.
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it.

and

creating fictional profiles that other contest participants have no ways of knowing are fictional ought to be against some rule - especially given that it was NEVER announced in any translation contest rule that MT posing as a fictional profile will be a participant. It didn't "let me down", I simply decided I have better use of my time than to be a free tester for MT:.
https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=creating%20fictional%20profiles,tester%20for%20MT.

Maria Laura Curzi
Gjorgji Apostolovski
 
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Gjorgji Apostolovski  Identity Verified
马其顿共和国（前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国）
Local time: 09:52
English英语译成Macedonian马其顿语
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主题发起人
@Daryo Dec 30, 2024

I've noticed too some MT entries in the last contest.
Anyway, I haven't seen any actual winner for my language pair yet.
 
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Laura Curzi
阿根廷
Local time: 05:52
English英语译成Spanish西班牙语
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Sad Dec 30, 2024

This is sad to me.

As a newly graduated translator, I like to participate in contests to gain experience, find my inner style, build confidence, and a name for myself, in the literary world.

So, it's sad to learn that a translation contest gets tempered by the organizer itself.
 


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