[Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

[Mark]

A brief addendum,

On 4/24/13 12:25 PM, Mark wrote:
> From 2006 through 2012 [the ERC] allocated about $10m to kickstart 
> open-source MT, though focused primarily on European languages, via 
> the EuroMatrix (2006-09) and EuroMatrixPlus (2009-12) research projects.

Missed some projects. Seems the European Research Council is *really* 
pushing for this, with more like $20-25m overall. A few FP7 projects 
that may be useful to us:

* Let's MT! <https://www.letsmt.eu/>, which is supposed to organize 
resources to help organizations & companies build their own MT systems 
on open data and software, reducing reliance on closed-source cloud 
providers.

* MosesCore <http://www.statmt.org/mosescore/index.php?n=Main.HomePage>, 
focused mainly on improving Moses itself.

* The Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance 
<http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-research/overview>, a giant consortium that 
seems to have a commitment to liberal licensing 
<http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-share/licenses>

-Mark