Great ... looks like MediaWiki Content translation and Wiktionary may provide another important approach to a possible Universal Translator ... :)
Scott On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia projects, > but more about creating a generic tool that anyone could use to > translate anything, so not really what [[Content translation]] > describes > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is currently being developed: > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation > > > > It will provide all the tools needed to translate wiki articles, > including > > dictionary lookup. The back-end service interfaces will be fairly > generic & > > will use open source tools like dictd and apertium, so might be useful > for > > non-wiki projects. > > Yes, this statistics based system would be more like what I meant, but > keep in mind that if it was open, so that anyone could contribute on > that database, just like wikipedia is, it would probably collect > enormous amount of data pretty quickly, just as wikipedia did. > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > A statistics-based system (such > > as Google Translate) requires enormous amounts of > > data to become useful. > > > > It's not something that you can start as a subproject > > within Wiktionary, not even as a separate WMF project. > > It's a very large task. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
