I'm replying to 2 posts below. Thanks also to the 3 other people who have responded to me privately.
1. > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:35:03 +0000 > From: ByteCool Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [Mt-list] MT and Instant Messenger/chat >"IRC at Work" (www.ircatwork.com) is a web-based IRC client. >After registering a username and logging in you will be able to chat >in an IRC channel with machine translation intermediating between >"your language" and "the channel's language". I didn't really test this >feature. I took a couple of minutes to test it. It only works with the IRC channels, not with the Yahoo login that they also have a window for. The translation function is simple: you can configure the language you send in and also the language you receive in. It provides source and target languages in parallel. Yet, as is the case of chat room language, which is very informal with many abbreviations and acronyms, the language translator has problems identifying and parsing. I was expecting this. There is no indication of the MT engine being used. 2. > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:18:58 +0200 > From: Ali Reza Ebadat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mt-list] MT and Instant Messenger/chat > Three years ago we released a program that combined our Machine Translation >(Pars Translator) with Yahoo messenger. ... > So we decided to stop it but it was a great experience for us to > be in users chat room. > If yo find a API from the YAhoo or other Messenger, it will be > easier to develop a MT for chat room. Thanks Ali, I think that this is one I had heard of a couple of years ago. You mention the technical difficulties. However, the level of language in a chat room usually is very informal, which always seems to be difficult for MT systems to parse. How did the the chat room users react and adjust to the use of your IM translator? Do they need to adjust their level of language? Or did they simply complain that it couldn't understand their level of language? I would be very interested to know more. I have used MT in IM exchanges in the past for answering questions. However, it was always in a structured environment in which I warned the user that i was using MT. And I always used full structured sentences in my replies, which translated fairly well into their language. And the users responded to me in full sentences which translated well enough for me to answer their questions. Thanks, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jeff Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There have been a number of attempts to implement MT with Instant > > Messengers > > (IM) /chat applications. > > Some have appeared and then disappear, or never get very far. > > Is anyone using MT in combination with IM such as Skype, Yahoo IM, MSN > > Messenger, AOL IM, or other chat channels? > > How is the technical integration? > > Is it easy to use? > > Has it helped for language communication in your context? > > Jeff Allen _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
