the first main need I see is to focus on regional languages and I have
adobted such a regional language as part of this summer, and I would like
to contribute in it
On 12-Mar-2018 4:52 PM, "Francis Tyers" <fty...@prompsit.com> wrote:
> El 2018-03-12 12:10, Marc Riera Irigoyen escribió:
>
>> Have you done any evaluation ? How does it compare to other systems
>>> (and
>>> the old system too) ? :)
>>>
>>
>> The pair works fairly well with encyclopedia-like texts, and has a
>> good Wikipedia coverage (92% for English and 87% for Catalan). The
>> reference translation (an English article on Greece not used during
>> development) shows a WER/PER of 51%/35%, better than the old pair's
>> 56%/40% with the same text. Yandex is slightly better than Apertium,
>> with 56%/34%, and Google stands with the best results (43%/26%). I
>> have not really evaluated translations from Catalan (most of the
>> development has taken place in the other direction), but it should be
>> more or less the same as the old pair.
>>
>
> Good to know that we are approaching the quality of Yandex! :)
>
> What kind of effort/work do you think needs to be done to approach Google's
> quality?
>
> What kind of lexical coverage do Google/Yandex have ?
>
> While the pair still needs a lot of work and love, the rewrite has
>> eased development. With good taggers on both sides, trained with
>> diverse texts (including dialogues to reflect oral language
>> constructions), as well as a reorganization/rewrite of the transfer
>> rules (inherited from the messy old pair), we should have a very
>> decent and useful language pair.
>>
>
> What would you say the main needs are now ?
>
> Fran
>
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