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

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-24 08:29, Erik Moeller a écrit :
> Are there open source MT efforts that are close enough to merit
> scrutiny? In order to be able to provide high quality result, you
> would need not only a motivated, well-intentioned group of people, 
> but
> some of the smartest people in the field working on it.  I doubt we
> could more than kickstart an effort, but perhaps financial backing at
> significant scale could at least help a non-profit, open source 
> effort
> to develop enough critical mass to go somewhere.

I would like to add that (I'm no specialist of this subject) 
translating natural language probably need at least a large set of 
existing translations, at least to get read of "obvious well known" 
idiotisms like "kitchen sink" translated "usine à gaz" when you are 
speaking of a software for example. On this regard, we probably have 
such a base with wikisource. What do you think?


>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1]
> 
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/AnimationProjectsGrowthWp.html
> [2] https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/pricing
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