[Sugar-devel] Chat Activity with translation

[Prannoy M]

Hi Aneesh,
I have looked at a few open source MTs and found that Apertium is the best
in terms of language pairs.
Also we could choose the MT based on the criterion it uses, viz.,
rule-based or example-based or statistical ones.Apertium is a rule-based
translator.Example-based translators give better translations of phrasal
verbs and idioms and fit words with more than 1 meaning into correct
context.
However, regarding the server load, I would want more info about how such
requests are handled, as I don't have much experience with such things.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Aneesh Dogra <lionaneesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Prannoy,
>
> Its good that you decided to do a GSOC project for us. Thanks! For "Chat
> Activity with translation" project you need to first of all research on
> the translation system options we have. "Meeting" uses Apertium, is it the
> best alternative available? Then you need to form a blue print on how you
> would the chat activity interact with the translation server?
>
> For this particular task you'll be doing more work with translation
> systems and the server end, than the sugar activity itself.
>
> We'll be requiring an easily callable translation API at the server end.
> The client (i.e the activity) will sent GET/POST requests to the server
> containing in them the text to be translated.
> The server should then respond with GET/POST requests containing in them
> the translated text.
> The client intercepts the request and displays the translated text.
>
> Important trade-offs to compare when searching for a good machine
> translation system:
>
> 1) Speed
> 2) Server Load/Requirements
> 3) Language Pairs
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Prannoy M <m.prannoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I would like to work on the proposal 'Chat Activity with translation' for
>> GSoC.I'm a first time GSoCer and am really interested to contribute.Can
>> someone help me get started?
>> I tried running sugar-emulator on ubuntu 12.04 but lots of activities
>> were not working.So now I'm installing by the virtual box method.
>>
>> Regards,
>> *M.Prannoy*
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Aneesh Dogra (lionaneesh)
>



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