[Wikipedia-l] Volapük Wikipedia is the 15th largest?

[Sabine Cretella]

User 32X schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> Sabine Cretella schrieb:
>   
>> Francis Tyers schrieb:
>>     
>>> Machine translation has a useful, and under-used place to play in the
>>> development of smaller Wikipedias.
>>>
>>>       
>> I completely agree to this statement :-)
>>     
>
> You overestimate the power of machine translation.
> I've just translated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbin
> with Babelfish into German, if I wouldn't already know
> what that article is about, I wouldn't have known it after
> reading the German "translation".
>   
Try to translate from Spanish to Catalan using Apertium
http://apertium.sourceforge.net

and then ask a Catalan Speaker what he thinks ...

Babelfish is pure crap - they don't even know what machine translation 
means IMHO.

Apertium is programmed to translate from only one language to only one 
other language - for each language pair it follows very specific rules.

Also have a look at the Cherokee wikipedia  ... Jeff really did an 
amazing job in machine translation from English to Cherokee (I have it 
confirmed also by other people - I don't speak or understand Cherokee 
myself).

Cheers, Sabine