On 02/04/2014 10:47 PM, Francis Tyers wrote: > Out of the 39 or so language pairs that we have in trunk/, only two or > three could be considered to offer "state of the art" performance with > [...] > Any thoughts ?
I'm holding myself back, because there are so many projects out there and there are so few Swedish-speaking people active in Apertium, and no clear compass direction. Another project that interests me is Wiktionary, where I add entries for Swedish words in the English and Danish branches. This too has very few other Swedish-speaking contributors, so the growth in my subsection is very slow, but it has a clear compass direction: Even though I take small steps, I know I'm going in the right direction. The structure for grammar, parts of speech, entry layout, and templates is all set and now I only need to create tens of thousands of entries. Even if I only create a dozen, that moves forward. It seems much harder to do small, incremental improvements of the Swedish (-Danish) language pair of Apertium. And quite easy to cause chaos. I made a few contributions in August 2013, but then I got ideas for some radical changes, but I couldn't predict if they were net improvements, or if they could have dangerous side effects. Apertium would benefit if the creation (and testing) of new paradigms was more clearly separated from adding new words to the dictionaries. These are two different roles, that require different skills. Right now, everything is code that is submitted to SVN, which requires the programmer-like ability to edit large text files. Adding words to the dictionaries should be more on the simple wiki editing skill level. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
