El dj 09 de 02 de 2012 a les 14:29 +0100, en/na Simon H va escriure:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been lurking for some time on the mailinglist and have decided to
> introduce myself.
>
> I am a student in ICT ("Master en STIC") at the Université Libre de
> Bruxelles as a 'Master after Master' and am currently writing my
> master's thesis under the direction of Prof. Pierrette Bouillon. The
> aim of the thesis is to compare the efficiency of different
> translation tools, not only on the "correctness" of the translation
> but also on the usability of the tool (web
> version?/cost/management/etc) for small businesses. Being a Belgian, I
> am focusing on the French-Dutch pair. In order to facilitate my work,
> I've been advised to restrict the domain to a minimum to avoid bad
> translations and ensure near-to-perfect translations. The domain I
> have chosen is real estate: there are many ads on the web that are
> available, and the language used contains close-to-zero ambiguities.
Great!
> In order to do so, I have made plans to develop 'my own' dictionaries
> of fr-nl with only the words found in the 'source' ads.
Ok, you could trim the existing French and Dutch dictionaries in order
to make this easier.
> Apertium will yield, hopefully, high-level results for the limited
> real estate domain. If this is the case, the dictionaries and transfer
> rules will of course be available if anyone wants them -- I am not too
> sure as how to present the pair, there is an existing fr-nl in the
> incubator and 'my' pair would be the only 'specialized' pair on the
> wiki.
Well, just present it as a "work in progress" that functions for a
particular domain. I would leave it in incubator.
> If it all goes well, after I am finished with my thesis I am going to
> work on the real fr-nl pair (around September of this year), so if
> anyone's interested to share the workload, do not hesitate to contact
> me!
If you need help with practical aspects of Apertium, you're welcome on
IRC, there are a few of us around there most of the time!
Regards,
Fran
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