On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 9:34 PM Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you look at this chapter of a novel in the French language, > https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Voyageur_enchanté/Chapitre_1 > > ...it has a link to the corresponding chapter in Russian > and next to the word "Русский" is a little arrow ⇔ or <=> > > If you click that arrow, you get the two texts placed side-by-side, > https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Voyageur_enchanté/Chapitre_1?match=ru > > But there is no further matching. Paragraphs are not next to > each other. If I understand correctly, this is the "Double Wiki" > extension, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DoubleWiki > https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:DoubleWiki_Extension > > Is anybody using this feature in a serious way? Does it have > any more details that can make the matching better? If both > texts had numbered paragraphs and sentences (something like the > Bible), it would in theory be possible to match them by number. > In most cases one sentence in the original does not correspond to one sentence in a translation. In many cases, one paragraph in the original does not correspond to one paragraph in a translation. As long as the Double_Wiki tool is a general-purpose tool for comparing different language versions, it's going to be massively limited in what it can do in these fashions.
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