<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jesús Franco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tezcatl@fedoraproject.org">tezcatl@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Yaron, thank you very much for your quick reply, i'll comment interleaving.<br>
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Yaron Shahrabani wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Jesús Franco<br>
> <<a href="mailto:tezcatl@fedoraproject.org">tezcatl@fedoraproject.org</a>>wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> There is no doubt than machine automated translation is helping in the<br>
>> work of every translator at Fedora/FOSS at a large. But we shouldn't take<br>
>> for sure "Google is going better and better and i don't need to do<br>
>> anything after copypasting my strings for translation on it" as someone<br>
>> as said in the past.<br>
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</div>I use Google just marginally, when i'm not able to find a logic translation<br>
(done by another human), among shared TM in TAUS and maybe too in forums. I<br>
prefer quality on the translation sense over quantity over number of strings<br>
translated (unfortunately, i can't talk by other members of spanish<br>
translation team :S).<br></blockquote><div>LOL, I share the same thought ☺.<br><br>I never ran into TAUS, is there a way to take advantage of it in Linux?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> I think most of the efforts should be aimed at building Apertium corpuses.<br>
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</div>Unfortunately i think apertium is not packaged at Fedora, and in my own<br>
experience translating from English to Spanish it returns something like you<br>
call "stupid TM". Maybe i'm not getting the point, but my feeling about this<br>
is than machines are far of replacing people at this moment, whatever app<br>
you use.<br></blockquote><div>Lack of training and rules, in TM you can train but you can't create rules. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> The problem is that we can't build corpuses so easily, in order to create<br>
> a working corpus many hours of work are needed, if there was only a<br>
> simpler way of creating them and maintaining them using AI it would be<br>
> great (or even creating a graphical tool to aid in this mission).<br>
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</div>My thought about the sharing ideas come from my own experience using virtaal<br>
which lets me access to my own TM. Domingo Becker has come with a thought<br>
about connecting his translation app to Google or something kinda much the<br>
same.<br></blockquote><div>I truly hope I could contribute back to Google or Microsoft, although I don't have control over it.<br>How about improving <a href="http://open-tran.eu">open-tran.eu</a> so we can train it? Isn't it a much better resolution?<br>
Open-Tran.eu is really low on resources so we can't acheive something like this with the current instance of Open-Tran.eu, also I think users should have the ability to vote on certain translation, this way their statistical significance will be AIed as well...<br>
Virtaal 0.7.0 b2 supports <a href="http://open-tran.eu">open-tran.eu</a> (a bug in previous versions prevented us from using it).<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> Building "stupid" TMs with statistical data can be sometimes false and<br>
> they need lots of AI to get better, building good corpuses with the right<br>
> rules for every language will help computers understand human language in<br>
> source and destination languages.<br>
<br>
</div>I think we are talking about different directions. I don't believe computers<br>
can understand the obscure corners of a whole human language soon. But i'm<br>
pretty sure people is not so stupid than machines if they try to do their<br>
best. This is why i'm talking about sharing TM among people, not CPUs.<br></blockquote><div>I'm all into sharing TMs but I think that without defining rules you are just generalizing between languages instead of sharing rules and corpuses, training an app to understand your language gramatically so the app can decompose your words and sentences and then recontruct them into another language is a much cleaner job, althouth we cannot add sarcasm or context to the source sentence we can make the computer understand the grammatical structure of words and sentences instead of statisctically guessing. <br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> I want to present you with a problem I had with translating text from<br>
> Arabic to Hebrew, Google's mechanism is doing the following procedure:<br>
> Translated the Arabic text to English, English is then translated to<br>
> Hebrew, You can't even possible imagine how strong is the phrase "Lost in<br>
> translation" in this case.<br>
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</div>Imagine what could be happened if a "translator" has taken that result just<br>
"because is Google". That's exactly my point.<br></blockquote><div>Due to a lack of translation resources (for computing and technical documentation mostly) most kiddies find themselves using Google as a translator without fixing the results, the outcome is an incomprehensible app or doc.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> BTW, Microsoft translator does much better job than Google's translator<br>
> when translating from English to Hebrew.<br>
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</div>I can't have an idea about that, i use and promote just free (as in freedom)<br>
software. It's not about "morality", it's just i can't suggest to a fellow<br>
translator "buy this software" (whatever provider he/she can through).<br></blockquote><div>Its free and supported by Virtaal: <a href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/">http://www.microsofttranslator.com/</a> <br>
Same deal with Google.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> Hebrew and Arabic share basic rules, instead of using English in the<br>
> middle we can use a mechanism that will take advantage of their<br>
> similarities to translate between them without going through 3rd language.<br>
> Same for Czech and Slovak, apparently many Czech translators are using the<br>
> Slovak translation instead of translating from English and vice versa.<br>
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</div>I think the same about Português (and even more Catalá) "twins" languages of<br>
Castilian (Spanish), it would be easier to work among similar languages,<br>
than putting english in the middle. Actually that wicked idea is the<br>
"official" approach in Fedora for guides written in a language other than<br>
english, translating first to en_US and from there to another languages.<br></blockquote><div>That's generalizing but using the same idea for translation just leads to a bad translation.<br>Languages share certain rules that are lost while translated to each other.<br>
Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and Italian can all share corpuses and rules that you cannot acheive by translating using English in the middle, even in a cultural aspect.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Maybe we should stay using english as a common language, but i'm sure than<br>
for brazilian and catalan people its easier to understand me in my mother<br>
language than through a machine smashing my words in a statistical based<br>
software.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Apertium website: <a href="http://www.apertium.org/" target="_blank">http://www.apertium.org/</a><br>
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</div>I'm going to apertium site if there are new ideas i can get through there. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
> Yaron Shahrabani<br>
><br>
> <Hebrew translator><br>
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</div>Thanks for sharing your vision about this.<br>
Best regards.<br>
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</font><div class="im">Jesús Franco - Fedora Ambassador and Translator<br>
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