Blatantly wrong translation of common Swedish word

[SafeTex]

Hello

The Swedish to English standard model has just given me:

There are many translations that we all could query, but very often we can see that a source word can be translated in many ways depending on the context, and that the translation is not right in our particular context

But here we would be hard pushed to imagine that the Swedish word could ever be translated as "reliable". For those who don't read Swedish, the correct translation would be "impatient" or any synonym of "impatient".

"Reliable" in Swedish is "pålitlig" which has some "similarities" with otålig. The clusters "ål" and "lig" and both have the letter "t" in the middle.

I've also checked that memoQ has nothing to do with this using the stand-alone feature

Does this give us a clue as to how the MT engine works in some way??? Nevertheless, the error is pretty surprising for a Swedish MT engine as both words are common, and should appear in any large general database.

What do you make of this Tommi?

Thanks

[SafeTex]

Very next line of my job today

so I went and checked and I'm indeed using the downloadable Swedish to English MT engine

Does this indicate some sort of compiling error in the database???

[SafeTex]

Hello

I think I've worked it out.

It's the capital letter that is causing the problem. We've already discussed words in all uppercase and why they are not translated well but I did not realize that this would have an effect on single words starting with a capital letter and taken out of all other context (word list)

Regards

[TommiNieminen]

Yeah, looks like short fragments are problematic, especially with rarer words. I see you are using the 2019-12-05 model, that's fairly old, you would probably get better results with opus+bt-2021-04-30, from the Tatoeba-MT-models. The bt in the model name stands for backtranslation, which should make the model more robust with rarer words.

[SafeTex]

Hello Tommi

I had no idea that the models are updated.

Anyway, with the new model, the results are much better on this word list

Thanks