Op Vr, 2009-02-13 om 02:16 +0900 skryf Nguyen Vu Hung: > > Vietnamese, and probably Japanese, Korean and Chinese as well > have a big problem in word segmentation that prevents pootle from > making a good terminology. > > At least in Vietnamese, the feature "suggested terminology" in pootle > is quite useless. We have to use an external dictionary.
I am sorry that it is not working well for you, and disappointed that this is the first time we hear about this. What is needed to improve it? What does segmentation have to do with it? Surely you are translating from English so the segmentation of the Vietnamese is not required, or is it? The only feedback I have gotten so far about the terminology feature is that it is extremely useful. So if your experience is different, please help us to understand how your expectations are different and how we can improve it. Perhaps we can help you tune the terminology list with knowledge of how Pootle makes the suggestions. For those interested, the terminology feature is explained here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/terminology_matching Pootle is developed as an open source project. We really need contributors to get involved and help us to improve it. Obviously I can't promise that somebody will fix everything in 10 minutes, but over the years volunteers to the project have tried to improve things in many areas for many languages - especially Vietnamese. Most recently a volunteer from the One Laptop Per Child project contributed some improvements to the quality checks for Spanish. We would welcome your contributions. Last year there was a Google Summer of Code project suggested to improve the handling of terminology. Perhaps it will be proposed again this year and you can help to work out how things should work and help to test it. Thank you for the feedback. Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/language-and-dialect-codes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
