On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote:
> Michael Galvez, 05/08/2010 15:12: > > Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members > of > > Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for > > feedback/questions. > > Thank you, you've explained some important things. > > > There is spell check in Translator Toolkit, although it's not available > for > > all languages. We don't have any punctuation checks today and I doubt > that > > we can release this anytime soon. (If it's not available in Google Docs > or > > Gmail, then it's unlikely that we'll have it for Translator Toolkit, as > > well, since we use the same infrastructure.) > > What are supported languages? I see that OOo has some 100 dictionares > (and some are really great). > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries Here's the list of supported languages: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19933. Not sure if the Gmail team can use those dictionaries but will pass on the link. > > > Michael Galvez, 06/08/2010 19:47: > > 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties. In > > general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., > Google > > Translate, Google Dictionary, Google Translator Toolkit), we don't have > > permission to donate that data to other sites. > > I see (this is crucial). > How many dictionaries did you acquire? Does this affect also "small" > languages? What about out of print bilingual dictionaries (especially in > "biggest" languages, where there are lots of them)? Do you acquire them > on limited licenses, too, or you try to acquire them completely instead? > The languages for the acquired dictionaries are the one listed in http://www.google.com/dictionary. This includes monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. I believe all of them are on limited licenses, although the specifics vary depending on the deal. > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
