[Mt-list] Re: hi-Latn to en translator

2011-05-19 Thread dzo 
Doug, No idea on your specific question re online MT for non-standard Latin 
transcriptions of Hindi. However, it sounds like a 2- or 3-step process: first 
into the script ( via perhaps a preliminary step to clean up the 
transcription), then through the translator.

From past experience running simple Chinese texts through a variety of online 
hanyu - pinyin and MT applications, and from ongoing observations of 
non-standard transcriptions of African languages (mostly interference from 
European language orthographic conventions or simple expediency of ASCII), it 
occurs that there could be a great benefit to having arrays of online 
utilities alongside MT for transliteration between scripts and correction of 
orthographies / transcriptions. 

Presently, as your question re Hindi and my somewhat dated (and admittedly 
rather limited) experience with Chinese indicate, doing anything online with 
transliterations or irregular transcriptions of text (esp. in tandem with MT) 
can present challenges.

Don  


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Anyone know of a Web site that will accept input in Latin-script Hindi, 
probably not an official orthography, and translate it into English?  Google 
Translate seems to accept Hindi only in Devanagari.

Thanks,

--Doug
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[Mt-list] Kamusi Project, less-resourced languages, and MT

2014-09-24 Thread dzo 
The Kamusi Project has developed a model for an online multilingual 
dictionary that is intended in part to facilitate work on MT for 
less-resourced languages.


Kamusi began at Yale in 1994 as a pioneer in both online dictionaries 
and African language material on the internet. It is now an independent 
non-profit.


Links:
* Kamusi Project: http://kamusi.org/
* Molecular lexicography video  explanation of plans (via Global 
Giving site): 
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/full-matrix-of-human-language-knowledge/
* Brief history of Kamusi at 20: 
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2014/09/kamusi-at-20-keeping-vision-alive-and.html


Don Osborn, PhD
(Kamusi board member)


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