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Send message Joined: 6 Aug 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 3,456,779 RAC: 546 |
I think this would make a good project. If you agree, please e-mail the Project Manager listed on the site. Translator@home |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 19 Credit: 16,547 RAC: 0 |
Its aproject that wont get any where in the forseable future, nothing has happened since the web site appeared and he has had no one interested in the project at all. Click the Sig Join UBT |
Send message Joined: 10 Oct 04 Posts: 223 Credit: 4,664 RAC: 0 |
The web page doesn\'t tell us which, if any, organisation is running this project, or the name and credentials of a single person involved. As a linguist I would comment that the big already-on-line translation facilities like Google and Babel Fish, which has been running for years, still produce unintelligible rubbish even between very common combinations like English-French or English-Spanish the moment words are used in an unusual sense, or a figurative phrase occurs. In such cases, the translation engines do not even always recognise all the grammatical parts of speech in the text to be translated. Rubbish in = rubbish out. I am aware that scientific texts have, in some senses, a more limited lexical range, but this is not always the case. At the moment what is required is much more time for the fundamental research being carried out by programmers and linguists. The aim of present research is mostly still at the stage of getting computers to \'understand\' ONE language, never mind translating between the \'numberous\' (sic) languages the site talks about. Do they intend to replicate the work already done for Babel and Google? Use monolingual/bilingual dictionaries that are already on-line? No wonder they say they need lawyers. This project is so unrealistic in its aims that I doubt whether it will be able to attract funding in its present form. __________________________________________________ |
Send message Joined: 6 Aug 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 3,456,779 RAC: 546 |
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