If I understand the question correctly, it's a matter of support that we should and can to our machine translation providers. Currently there's only - Apertium, but there may be more in the future.
The Language engineering team members met Apertium developers in a machine translation conference in Turkey recently. We discussed what will be the most useful thing for them, and clearly it is the resolution of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95886 . This should happen very soon in any case. Some other ideas are around https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91748 .
If I'm allowed to dream for a moment, then if we're working with a Free Machine Translation provider, then we could send the MT engine developers feedback about the translations continuously, so that they would release new versions of the engine *daily* rather than every few months as it happens with Apertium now. It's technically conceivable, but will require a bit of engineering work from both sides.
And of course there's the elephant in the room, which is developing machine translation for more languages than what Apertium and other engines support today. It's a bit of a circular argument, but one of the best things to do to that end is simply to translate a lot of articles manually, and provide MT developers with parallel texts, the most important resource for MT engine development - and this really goes back to the aforementioned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95886 .
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2015-06-06 20:08 GMT+03:00 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:57 AM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
It worries me that downstream we reap the benefits without considering
that the upstream projects might need support too.
I wish that the conversation thread that was started long ago to support upstream projects also includes now open sourced translation tools
Bumped by the recent discussion of ContentTranslation: Is there an overview / umbrella for current "upstream support" issues"? (ditto for downstream support, for that matter?)
SJ
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