Hi,
i have an for GSOc this year about addind a new language
pair(hindi-sanskrit).
can anybody here please gulide me.
-suraj
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Francis Tyers <fty...@prompsit.com> wrote:
> El 2018-02-23 18:59, Antonio Toral escribió:
>
>> Dear apertiumers,
>>
>> I've an idea for GSOC about subtitles. Before putting it on the wiki,
>> I wanted to check with _yous_, as it seems that there has been
>> previous related work [1].
>>
>> In a nutshell, it is about translating subtitles from OpenSubtitles
>> with Apertium, for closely-related pairs of languages A and B such
>> that (i) there are mature A-->B systems in Apertium and (ii) on
>> OpenSubtiles there are many subtitles for A and very few for B. An
>> example is A=ES, B=CA. There could be 2 tasks:
>>
>> 1. Development of a tool to translate subtitles. Given a translation
>> direction A-->B:
>>
>> 1.1. Use OpenSubtitles' API to find subtitles S in A not
>> translated yet into B
>>
>> 1.2. Translate S from A to B using Apertium's API.
>>
>> 1.3. Upload the translated subtitles to OpenSubtitles. These
>> subtitles could have a preamble such as "Warning: this subtitle is
>> machine translated! Powered by Apertium.org"
>>
>> 2. Evaluation of Apertium's quality for subtitles (for 1 or 2
>> translation directions) and improvements/modifications in Apertium's
>> systems for those directions based on that evaluation.
>>
>> I'd be happy to hear opinions, experiences from related previous work,
>> criticism, etc :)
>>
>
> My main question would be about licensing, as far as I'm aware most of
> the stuff in OpenSubtitles is not available under a free licence.
>
> Other comments:
>
> * The type of text in OpenSubtitles is typically of a very different domain
> to what Apertium is usually used for, so might result in a lot of weirdness
> in expressions (unless extra work is done on the MT systems for coping
> with dialogue type texts)
>
> * It would be a nice way to advertise Apertium.
>
> Fran
>
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