Google brings in the machines for Wikipedia translations
posted Tue, 2010-07-27 10:41 by
Google and Wikipedia recently announced that they are aiming to translate more than 16 million words of Wikipedia content into ‘smaller languages’.
While Wikipedia already contains a wealth of information in English, German and French, languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Swahili, Telugu and Gujarati are under-represented.
Google is aiming to rectify this - and further its aim of internationalising knowledge - by translating Wikipedia’s most read pages into these languages.
tags: Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, Google, PEMT, Wikipedia
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
