> Uri, > > I am not sure that you grasp the enormity of the task at hand. However, I > don't > want to discourage you. Unlike others, I would appreciate a stupid translator > that replaces a word by a word. It would be wonderful to have a free software > that is as bad Google or babelfish. I would LOVE to have a free too to make > fun > about. Now we have nothing.
There are few already no? > So go on and get to work. Note that if I were you, I'd set myself a more > realistic goals first. In a way, I am you: when we set out to write hspell we > had dreams of a linguistic future. I hope that the huge list that we > collected, > of almost all modern Hebrew words, will be useful to you. Even the most huge tasks can be started as small ones. Wordnet and the free dictionary could be a good start. (word net is more what he probebly needs). > > I want to have both an algorithm and a database of languages (words, > > phrases etc) that will improve over time. That is, start with a simple > > algorithm, and feed data into it. The data will be sources and > > translations in any language. When there is enough data for a given > > The database you describe here is not dissimilar to WordNet, and I am told > that > few list members are trying to extend the Hebrew WordNet. Maybe you can join > them. Yea, join us;) or word together with the Mila team (which I think also try to get to the same goal). Btw I was thinking about automaticly translating software with the right glossary. It seems that is a lot easier task. Especialy with the right po comments. If anyone wish to join and help;) Ely > -- > Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ > 162180901 > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
