On 1 August 2010 03:30, Jimmy O'Regan <jore...@gmail.com> wrote: > Depending on the languages involved, the amount of resources available > for those languages, and having realistic expectations, a usable system > can be made in as little as 3-6 months by a single motivated volunteer, > with help from experienced developers. Earlier this year, at the request > of Crisis Commons, 3 of us built a Haitian Creole to English prototype in > less than a week. > Staying motivated is *hard*. We have 2-3 times as many half-working > prototypes as we have released language pairs. Having realistic > expectations is hard. People want English, and/or they want to include > *everything* (budget at least a year of full time work for anything to > English). > If you know the difference between noun, adjective, and verb, understand > Zipf's law, and want open source MT for a pair of languages, come find us > on #apertium on FreeNode. We'll be happy to help.
Hmm. This sounds to me like something it would be on-mission for WMF to fund a developer for. Of course, there's lots of other quick wins we could achieve with paid developer time. But this strikes me as something to keep in mind. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
