On 26 January 2011 18:54, Mireia <mgine...@dlsi.ua.es> wrote:
> Have you read the article "Exploring Machine Translation on the Web" on
> the revista Tradumàtica from december 2010?

No. Is it on the web somewhere?

> There is a comparison (only with 4 sentences!) between 4 MT engines:
> Yahoo! Babelfish, Google Translate, Apertium and Microsoft Translator.
>
> Among other things, the article says about Apertium: "It does not
> support URL or webpage translation directly. The user needs to cut and
> paste the text and it provides a translation at the bottom of the input
> box."
>
> The author of the article didn't pay much attention to the page, but I
> think it is not very clear that in www.apertium.org one can also
> translate web pages. I personally liked more the older version of the
> page, where there were different tabs for text translation and web
> translation. I also think "web translation" is more clear than "surf and
> translate".

Ok.

> This is to contribute to the point I've read in the Minutes of the
> Apertium extraordinary meeting:
>
> "Participants agree that the Apertium website needs improvement and
>      changes. Xavi is asked to do them and participants suggest to pay
>      this from remaining Apertium funds"
>
> On the other hand maybe it's time to do a new release for en-es, since
> some of the errors that appear in the article are solved in the version
> from svn.

Was it not in the minutes that we are to do a batch of new releases?
We discussed it, and there was some sort of general consensus that we
should make a batch of releases.

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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