Great ... looks like MediaWiki Content translation and Wiktionary may provide another important approach to a possible Universal Translator ... :)
Scott
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia projects, but more about creating a generic tool that anyone could use to translate anything, so not really what [[Content translation]] describes
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is currently being developed:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
It will provide all the tools needed to translate wiki articles,
including
dictionary lookup. The back-end service interfaces will be fairly
generic &
will use open source tools like dictd and apertium, so might be useful
for
non-wiki projects.
Yes, this statistics based system would be more like what I meant, but keep in mind that if it was open, so that anyone could contribute on that database, just like wikipedia is, it would probably collect enormous amount of data pretty quickly, just as wikipedia did.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
A statistics-based system (such as Google Translate) requires enormous amounts of data to become useful.
It's not something that you can start as a subproject within Wiktionary, not even as a separate WMF project. It's a very large task.
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