[Foundation-l] Machine translation, Wikipedia and WiktionaryZ

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Dearest Sabine,

All rights under the identified word listings are hereby released under 
the GFDL for use in
machine translation and language preservation efforts of the WikiMedia 
Foundation and
the Wikipedia Community. This release includes but is not limited to:

lexicons, word lists, thesaraus, rule sets for mahcine translation, 
grammar references, and any materials
created or contributed which originate under the the terms of the GFDL.

This release DOES NOT apply to any proprietary language materials not 
released into the
public domain which comprise lexicons, word lists, grammar references, 
thesaurus, or rule sets
which are subject to separate confidentiality agreements and which have 
not been placed into the public
domain by interested parties for any Native American Languages or 
Language Contributors who choose
to keep their proprietary materials protected. This applies to those 
languages and groups who may
have cultural basis for protecting their languages due to religious or 
other concerns.

Those lexicon and word lists identified by Sabine and uploaded to:

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

are hereby forever irrevocably released under the GFDL and WiktionaryZ shall serve as the repository for not only
these lists, but also the rule set and grammar parsing rule scripts for the Wikitrans program for any identified 
target languages.  

Completed word lists will be used to perform Machine Translation runs against the English Wikipedia on a regular basis.
Sabine is hereby appointed as coordinator on behalf of the Wolf Mountain Group to manage any and all Wikimedia and Wikipedia
coordination efforts for this program on behalf of the Community and may request access to WMG servers and facilties 
for maintenance and coordination efforts.  


Signed,

Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
Chairman
Wolf Mountain Group, LLC


Sabine Cretella wrote:

>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
>Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! 
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