On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Mathieu Stumpf < [email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to add that (I'm no specialist of this subject) translating > natural language probably need at least a large set of existing > translations, at least to get read of "obvious well known" idiotisms like > "kitchen sink" translated "usine à gaz" when you are speaking of a software > for example. On this regard, we probably have such a base with wikisource. > What do you think? Personally, I think this is an awesome idea :-) Wikisource corpora could be a huge asset in developing this. We already host different public domain translations, and in the future, we hope, more and more Wikisources will allow user generated translations. At the moment, Wikisource could be a interesting corpora and laboratory for improving and enhancing OCR, as the OCR generated text is always proofread and corrected by humans. As part of our project ( http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development), Micru was looking for a GSoC candidate for studing the reinsertion of proofread text into djvus [1], but at the moment didn't find any interested student. We have some contacts with people at Google working on Tesseract, and they were available for mentoring. Aubrey [1] We thought about this both for OCR enhancement purposes and files updating on Commons and Internet Archive (which is off topic here). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
