El dt 30 de 07 de 2013 a les 12:51 +0200, en/na Lars Aronsson va escriure: > 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?
In our experience not much. We've found that typically after the pairs are released, they tend to stay static. There are of course some exceptions, e.g. Breton-French. You could characterised our approach as being breadth-first at the moment, trying to increase the number of language pairs getting to a basic level, and then moving onto the next one. The idea being, that after the initial work is done, the work to improve the coverage could be, like you said, done by interested users. > 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. It would be nice to have a yearly audit of released language pairs with this information. > Has the growth over time been documented for any of the > language pairs in Apertium? No, but it would be fairly easy to do. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
