Comments on: Fuzzy Match or Fuzzy Math? http://www.globalvis.com/fuzzy-match-or-fuzzy-math/ Translation Localization Services for High-Tech Companies | Software Localization, Website translation, Medical Translation, Product Localization, Technical Translation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Website translator http://www.globalvis.com/fuzzy-match-or-fuzzy-math/comment-page-1/#comment-9328 Website translator Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:52:31 +0000 http://www.globalvis.com/fuzzy-match-or-fuzzy-math/#comment-9328 Interesting post. But I would like to highlight that fuzzy matches may not even correspond to the same words, if the characters are the same or similar. I have found cases where I had an 80% match and none of the words matched! Worst of all, even 100% matches are misleading, because they match the original text in the source language, but this may have different translations in the target language. A typical example is gender - a sentence like "Place it on the table" will have a different translation in Spanish depending on whether "it" has a male or female gender in Spanish. Interesting post. But I would like to highlight that fuzzy matches may not even correspond to the same words, if the characters are the same or similar. I have found cases where I had an 80% match and none of the words matched!

Worst of all, even 100% matches are misleading, because they match the original text in the source language, but this may have different translations in the target language. A typical example is gender – a sentence like “Place it on the table” will have a different translation in Spanish depending on whether “it” has a male or female gender in Spanish.

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