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

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-26 19:57, Samuel Klein a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi at gmx.net> 
> wrote:
>> * Erik Moeller wrote:
>>>Are there open source MT efforts that are close enough to merit
>>>scrutiny?
>>
>> Wiktionary. If you want to help free software efforts in the area of
>> machine translation, then what they seem to need most is high 
>> quality
>> data about words, word forms, and so on, in a readily machine-usable
>> form, and freely licensed.
>
> Yes.  Finding a way to capture and integrate the work OmegaWiki has
> done into a new Wikidata-powered Wiktionary would be a useful start.
> And we've already sort of claimed the space (though we are neglecting
> it) -- it's discouraging to anyone else who might otherwise try to
> build a brilliant free structured dictionary that we are *so close* 
> to
> getting it right.
>

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