[Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

[geni]

2009/6/9 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> Google has built in support for using its machine translation technology to
> help bootstrap human translations of Wikipedia articles.
>
> http://translate.google.com/toolkit/docupload
>
> The benefit to Google is clear - they need sentence-aligned text in multiple
> languages in order to bootstrap their automated system.
>
> This is a great example of machines helping people help machines help
> people, etc... I'm sure this is now the most efficient way to produce high
> quality translations of Wikipedia articles en masse.
>
> We should take the ToS to make sure the translated text can be CC-BY-SA
> licensed.
>
> /Brian

Under Google's TOS you cannot enter CC or GFDL produced by someone
else into the translation tool.

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geni