A 2016-03-01 22:20, Per Tunedal escrigué:
> Hi all of you,
> Congratulations to the new release! I haven't tested it yet, but I'm
> very curious. It will be very interesting to see if at least the most
> blatant errors finally are gone.
> 
> I'm sorry to hear that I contributed to Lars bad experiences in the 
> past
> :-(
> I passed several months struggling with adding words and trying to
> correct errors I found. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to solve all of
> the tricky issues I found and was very disappointed when the 
> translation
> quality stayed very low.
> 
> Later I found thousands of more errors in the Swedish dictionary by
> expanding the words and running a spell check on the expanded list. I
> fixed just a few of them, but didn't find any solution to some of the
> problems. I simply abandoned the tedious task to correct the errors -
> they where too many.
> 
> One big issue that I didn't solve was that the tagger had never been
> trained - thus it made some very blatant errors. Further some of the 
> new
> vocabulary wouldn't show up in translations. Is the tagger trained now?
> 
> An other problem was lexical selection. I'm eager to see how this is
> handled now.
> 
> My intention was to create the pair Norwegian-Swedish, but I was 
> advised
> to start with Swedish-Danish. My bad experiences of that pair made me
> abandon my original intention and explore statistical translation
> instead, although I already had learnt some Norwegian.
> 
> Anyhow, congratulations to the new release! It was probably a brilliant
> idea to simply make a new Swedish dictionary and thus get rid of all 
> old
> errors. I do hope the translation quality now finally has improved!

If you'd like to share any of your probabilistic lexicons for 
Swedish--Norwegian
or Swedish--Danish we'd be interested in looking at them.

If you have experience in SMT, the word alignments for Europarl for 
Swedish--Danish
could be pretty useful! Especially if you use the lemmatisation step 
described here:

http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Lemmatisation

Fran

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