[Corpora-List] BBC live multi-way translation

[Serge Sharoff]

just the other day we had a presentation covering a more meaningful use of machine translation coupled with human intelligence:
http://news.meedan.net/index.php?page=static&action=about

The users can post their messages or links to interesting articles in either language.  By default everything is first translated by MT, but then human editors can improve the quality.  However, the set of language pairs is limited to English and Arabic.  

Another case of collaborative translation is a Wikipedia-like community
http://www.chinadialogue.net/static/faq
again only two languages (English and Chinese), but this is probably the nature of such communities.

Serge
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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Miles Osborne [miles at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 18 March 2010 19:08
To: resnik at umd.edu
Cc: corpora
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] BBC live multi-way translation

i was talking with a BBC reporter and indeed, they have the full log.

my feedfback to him is not that translation works (or otherwise), but
that people need to have something to actually talk about.  there are
obvious UI things to do here (eg have threading in the conversation to
help show and promote dialogue).

anyway, the fact that so many people can use translation like this is
quite an achievement, so i'm impressed.

Miles

On 18 March 2010 18:26, P Resnik <psresnik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, interesting.   Well, ok, maybe not that interesting, e.g. the current
> topic is
>
> Now discussing
>
> If you could say one thing to the world, what would it be?
>
> which doesn't really foster people talking to each other.  Favorite posting,
> on a quick skim:
>
> 02:18 GMT
>
> Noory, Birmingham, UK
>
> wasssuuuppppppppppppp
>
> Still, has anybody been capturing the full content?
>
>   Philip
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Miles Osborne <miles at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The BBC right now have an event running whereby people are taking to
>> each other, using Google's translation system.
>>
>> You can see it live here:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/superpower/spn.shtml
>>
>> (and follow parent for more background info)
>>
>> Miles
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