I am happy to know that we are doing at least "something" on this :) hopefully a first step to some more complex solution? Because from the proposal you linked I can't see how would I easily translate "apple" to different language. I know I can perform a number of lookups and queries to accomplish that, but IMHO it should be easier.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
I was looking for a free (possibly open source) provider of automatic translations for my open source application I am working on and quite had troubles finding some. Then I realized we have a project called "wiktionary" which could possibly (I was assuming it's open dictionary) help me here, but I was quite disappointed as I couldn't find any simple way to perform simple queries like:
translate "banana" from english to czech
I think that we could (maybe should in spirit of openness and wikiness) have some wiki-based web application that would serve this purpose - allow people query / translate simple words, but maybe even whole phrases. If anyone could edit this, maybe it would grow up into huge dictionary of all possible or frequent phrases that could be easily translated to any language on world.
Do we already have anything like this?
It doesn't exist yet but it is on the longer-term (aka 2015 earliest) plan for the Wikidata team. The current proposal is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary
Cheers Lydia
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