The first pass machine translation run of the English Wikipedia into the Swahili Language has completed and is posted. The translated XML dumps are posting to : http://sw.wikigadugi.org they will post throughout the night. Lexicons can be downloaded from: ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/africa/lexicon/swlexicon.public.bz2 - public swahili lexicon ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/africa/lexicon/swlexicon.kamusi.bz2 - kamusi project lexicon ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/africa/lexicon/sw.thesaurus.bz2 - rogets thesaurus in swahili MediaWiki Messages Files: ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/africa/MediWiki/MessagesSW.php.bz2 Machine Translated XML Dumps against the ewiki-20060817 XMl Dumps from the English Wikipedia: ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/africa/xml/swphwiki-20060816-pages-articles.xml.bz2 This first run does NOT employe the verb stem decomposer and conjugator, does NOT employ the grammar parser or sentence composer, does NOT employ the AI Inference engine, and does not perform verb or noun disambiguation as do the other machine translations as I have not constructed a decomposition rule set or grammar rules set for the translator. This first run uses simple word by word translation and phrase matching with hierarchical thesaurus lookups and substitution. This first pass is provided as an illustration of just how rapidly Wikipedia can be translated into a target language. A swahili grammar manual has been overnighted to me and later this week I will perform another run with grammar and sentence parsing rules. Since I am not a native speaker of swahili, I request a native speaker to select 20 or more very long articles and correc them. When I completed the disambiguator and grammar rules set for sentence construction, I will use the corrected articles to teach the AI engine how to reorder and retense the translations. This should get the translations over 90% accurracy. Unlike Cherokee, swahili appears to be a much simpler language for this task. The Machine translation of swahili is a VERY early first run and is a work in progress. Jeffrey V. Merkey _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l