International football chat uses machine translation
posted Mon, 2010-06-14 11:07 by
Whereever you go in the world, the one topic that unites just about everyone – regardless of language – is football.
With the World Cup in full swing, the BBC has been exploring the potential of machine translation for real-time international football chat with their World Cup Team Talk forum.
tags: BBC, Google Translate, machine translation, PEMT, World Cup
Foreign-language football: a look at the World Cup’s languages
posted Thu, 2010-06-10 08:50 by
So...how long have you been counting down to the 2010 World Cup? Four days? Four weeks? Four years?
We suspect a fair few people will fall into the latter category. But thankfully, the wait is almost over...the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks-off tomorrow. Football fever is set to spread like a contagious (non life-threatening!) disease across the globe and the prognosis is that fever-pitch will run for roughly 30 days.
EU’s Multilingual Web project gets the Lingo24 touch
posted Fri, 2010-06-04 10:52 by
Lingo24’s CTO Andrzej Zydron recently returned from a week in Bucharest, Romania, where he was contributing to the EU-funded Multilingual Web project.
Organised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Multilingual Web project is a two year collaboration between 22 institutes and companies in the vanguard of the web’s internationalisation.
The aim of the project is to improve the accessibility of the internet for people of all languages by developing technology and establishing multilingual standards.
tags: Lingo24, multilingual web, Translation, W3C
