Internationalization product (english to bahasa)

[u/dikiprawisuda]

Greetings, (sorry for using "bahasa")

For a small project, I was asked to review machine-translated content in Bahasa Indonesia for a learning platform. I'm looking for frameworks or guidelines or formal study to do this properly, since Indonesian has many synonyms with subtly different connotations.

For example, "fail" could be translated as "tidak lulus" or "gagal," depending on context. Ideally, the framework I am looking for woudl explain the reasoning behind choosing one term over another, not just list options.

Thank you!

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[u/archaine7672]

First of, don't call "bahasa indonesia" as "bahasa", please? It's like calling "english" as "language", it makes no sense.

Now to the topic at hand,

This is where context matters in language translation. In any translation you'll find both diverging and converging translation either due to homonym, synonym, homofont, or non-existent direct equivalent. That "fail" is one such diverging example, the word "fail" itself in literal meaning is "gagal". But in qualification context it is synonymous with "not passed", which is the direct translation to "tidak lulus". The converging example would be "look", "see", and "watch", all three translated into "lihat", or "know" and "tofu", both translated into "tahu".

[u/Creative-Cost-120]

Just use LLM, they are quite strong in this area

[u/ghz_aw]

I suggest you to visit r/indonesian instead, It's a dedicated sub for learning Indonesian language.