[Foundation-l] Machine translation, Wikipedia and WiktionaryZ

[Sabine Cretella]

Well this is on one hand to inform you about what we are going to do/try 
to do and on the other to tell people: if you want to do the same, just 
do it.

Jeff has this wordlist he uses for the machine translation of the 
Cherokee wikipedia. Well, since I want to try to do the same for 
Neapolitan he told me to download it and substitute the Cherokee words 
with Neapolitan words. Said and done :-) I downloaded the list. Talking 
with GerardM about uploading it I sent him the list and he put it on 
WiktionaryZ (thank you!):

http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_1
http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_2
http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_3
http://www.wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=MachineTranslation_preparation_4

Jeff: could you please confirm that we may use the list in this way 
under GFDL and CC-BY?

Well, what will happen now: I will start to create the needed entries in 
English and add the Neapolitan translations to it. Probably also Italian 
and as soon as we have Cherokee online I'll copy and paste these words 
there as well (always if I get the OK for it).

Once that is done we can go on with teaching the translation engine the 
grammar rules :-)

Now people will say and if it does not work ... well something tells me 
it will work ... and besides creating a basis for Machine Translation in 
this way also a dictionary is created. So one effort with double result.

Therefore I invite all that are interested in doing similar things to 
follow us in our adventure ... well yes, that's how I consider it: a 
huge adventure in the world of languages. Probably some that will start 
after me to work on this list will be faster ... it would be great to 
see that - there is always that time problem (at least for me).

Well this is the first time when we will see one of the WiktionaryZ 
features in action: reusability for other projects - in this case for 
our wikipedias.

Thank you Jeff for taking the time to work on our languages.

Ciao, Sabine
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