It is not an answer to sphinx, but rather an occasion to speak about several GSOC question I found strangely formulated.
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:09:51 +0800 > From: sphinx jiang <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Apertium-stuff] Idea for GSOC > > Dear Fran: > > I have been going through the "HOWTO", and the papers about translation > project. > And for the questions: > > (a) Are there existing machine translation (MT) systems for this pair? > > *The package of it don't contain MT.* > https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-zh_CN-zh_TW/ >> * > * > * > * > *But if you mean the MT outside apertium, yes, google can translate this > pair.* The question should be "Are there existing machine translation (MT) systems MAKING DIRECT TRANSLATION for this pair?" According to Google, it may translate zh_CN to English and then English to zh_TW (and the same on the other side). So, if Chinesse and English are not close languages, the result may be strange or in any case degraded. > > (b) If there are existing systems, how good are they? -- Could you do > better in three months? > > *Sorry, I can't overcome the engineers in Google in 3 months.* > The question should exclude commercial products. So, the question a) about existing systems should be "Are there FREE SOFTWARE existing machine translation (MT) systems ..." For instance, there are several French <-> English commercial translators. But for me, the fact a French entreprise sells its translator for few dozens of euro in Windows version, but for thousands of dollars in a UNIX based version is a good enough reason to develop a free software alternative. -------------------------------- Bernard Chardonneau (France) Phone : [33] 1 64 90 87 04 or [33] 9 72 36 32 90 (from Sept to June except holidays) GSM phone : [33] 6 49 95 13 95 (french scholl holidays, C zone) Multilingual websites for my free softwares : http://libremail.free.fr and http://libremail.tuxfamily.org http://cyloop.tuxfamily.org (mainly translated with Apertium) My general website (in french only) http://bech.free.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
