I'm not sure that's exactly the question. Rather, by using GTTK, people are contributing to building [[Translation memory]] for Google, which they can in turn use to build their statistical models. It's not that we're using non-free software, but rather that we're contributing to it.
-m. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > Fajro wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Ragib Hasan <ragibha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> (The tool used was Google Translation Toolkit. (not Google Translate). >>> There is a distinction between these two tools. Google Translation >>> Toolkit (GTT) is a translation-memory based semi-manual translation >>> tool. That is, it learns translation skills as you gradually translate >>> articles by hand. Later, this can be used to automate translation.) >>> >> Another issue: The resulting translation memory is not free > > This is a red herring. Some real and important issues have been raised > about machine translations, but this is not one of them. > > The fact that the source codes for the translation processes are not > free does not make the results of such machine translations unfree. Key > to anything being copyright is that material must be original and not > the result of a mechanical process. Machine translations are mechanical > processes. Another person using the same software with the same text > should have the same results. > > It is also important that the allegedly infringing text must have been > fixed in some medium. A person issuing a take down order must show, as > an necessary element of that order, where the material in question was > previously published. Two identical texts by different authors need not > be copies of each other. With human efforts two such identical texts > are highly improbable, but this need not be the case with machine > translation. Indeed if the same software keeps producing different > results I would question its reliability. > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
