Hello,
Brian McConnell from the Worldwide Lexicon here. I wanted to float an
idea to make Moses more generally accessible and usable as a web
service. If you'd like to get involved, let me know.
We currently offer a machine translation proxy service, accessible
via a simple API call to www.worldwidelexicon.org/t (this can be used
to return machine, volunteer and professional translations, all via
the same API). Repetitive queries are memcached and/or archived
permanently to reduce upstream server load. We also store user
submitted translations and can echo these to share the translation
memory (write backs from professional translators are especially
useful).
What I'd like to explore is the idea of creating a
moses.worldwidelexicon.org domain that serves as a web directory of
Moses servers, and also implements the translation proxy API. Then
users can submit requests to a single URL, which in turn are proxied
out to the best server for a given language pair. This would
encourage people to develop language specific Moses servers, which
can then become part of this metaservice.
The cost for us to relay these queries is pretty minimal, so we're
glad to support your work, and in turn, promote the long-term growth
of open source solutions like this.
If you'd like to discuss I can be reached at the contact points below.
Brian McConnell
Worldwide Lexicon Project
[email protected]
bsmcconnell on skype
http://www.worldwidelexicon.org
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