I learned about Apertium yesterday, thanks to David Cuenca, who posted a proposal for integrating machine translation into the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Machine_Translation_fora_Wikipedia
Apertium looks very promising in itself, with or without this proposal. But one aspect makes me curious: There seems to be a focus on starting new language pairs, both through instructions and through Google Summer of Code projects. But what happens after this? Do started pairs grow after the initial setup? Adding more words and phrases to a pair requires less skill than the initial setup, and it should be possible to invite a wider range of volunteers, e.g. wikipedians, to participate in this. To know if any such initiative is successful, we need to evaluate the coverage and word error rate periodically. Has the growth over time been documented for any of the language pairs in Apertium? -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
