[Foundation-l] Free translation memory

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:49:21 +0300, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

> 2010/7/29 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
>> <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>> 2010/7/29 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>:
>>>> Is there a Free competitor to the Google Translator Toolkit in terms
>>>> of online storage and sharing? I heard about OmegaT, but if i
>>>> understand correctly, it is a local application that doesn't offer
>>>> online storage and sharing - but correct me if i'm wrong. Are there
>>>> any other Free-minded translation memory services?
>>>
>>> ... Thinking out loud / replying to myself - translatewiki.net comes
>>> very close, but people are used to think about it as a tool for
>>> translating software messages and not for translating general texts.
>>> Maybe it can be adopted to that.
>>
>> Apertium: http://www.apertium.org/
> 
> I know that Apertium is a Free translation engine originally centered
> around Catalan and Spanish and later enhanced to other languages. 

Correct, though our range of languages is a lot larger and more diverse :)

FWIW, one of our most heavily-used language pairs is Norwegian Nynorsk-
Bokmål, and a large portion of that use is by Wikipedia contributors.

> I
> tried to look for a translation memory storage service at its website
> and didn't find anything. So, unless i am missing something, this
> project is probably using translation memory internally, but i can't
> find a way to upload my pairs of translated texts there.
> 

Correct. We don't currently provide a way to add your own translation 
memory via the website -- the feature is available if you install the 
software locally (apt-get install apertium on Debian and Ubuntu), or via 
Tradubi (http://www.tradubi.com). A GSoC student is working on a web-
based post-editing environment, so the feature may become available from 
the Apertium site in the future.

For the moment, if you want a web-based environment, with the ability to 
add and create your own translation memory, use Tradubi.

> (Having studied Catalan pretty well, i really should take a better look
> at Apertium in any case.)

All contributions welcome :)