Bilal/Osama - Thanks for your interest in WikiBhasha. I want to post a note to this comment as a response, and, I would encourage you to attend the workshop and have an open discussion with us as well.
We started the WikiBhasha as a collaborative platform for people to create multilingual data on Wikipedia, which can also symbiotically help computational linguistics community in research. This platform aims to make it easy for a language community to create content in their respective Wikipedias, leveraging the large English Wikipedia appropriately; we designed the system to help people create content in a target language Wikipedia, by helping them to discover appropriate content from English Wikipedia, translate and correct as appropriate, add new content, and shape their contribution to target Wikipedia. Also, there are provisions for sharing their translation knowledge with others. Large content in multilingual Wikipedia has obvious benefit for local language communities, and in addition, can benefit significantly the research community as well. All the data collected through Wikipedia, we plan to release freely as linguistics research resource, along with Wikimedia Foundation. We had released the WikiBhasha as an open-source extension in MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiBhasha); we encourage developers to participate in making this tool better, and more usable by Wikipedians. Microsoft Research works extensively with research communities across the globe. We publish extensively the results of our research in the public domain for our peer community to use and to build on further. Just like the number of free tools that we have released for user communities (such as the Worldwide Telescope, Dryad and DryadLINQ), WikiBhasha is one more example of MSR's commitment to working openly with user communities. Hope to meet you in the workshop. A Kumaran PhD Multilingual Systems Research Microsoft Research India http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/kumarana _______________________________________________ Wikiar-l mailing list http://ar.wikipedia.org [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l
