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Can Statistical Machinal Translation be useful in any way for launchpad?

Asked by katakombi

Dear Community,

 I wonder if statistical machinal translation is being used in launchpad or has ever been considered as helper tool.
For instance it could be used to provide rough translations which users just would have to edit, or similar
natural language processing methods could be useful by "standardizing" an IT vocabulary of PC applications in
arbitrary languages.
Are there any attempts/ideas whatsoever floating around?
I currently do not know much about launchpad and how things are being done, but I wonder if people would have suggestions, which, for instance, turn out to be useful as student projects?

thanks
Stefan

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said : 		#1

We have considered it. There is free software out there that implements the full "pipeline" for SMT. But we simply haven't found time to dig into this further.

Of course since the source code for Launchpad is available, there's nothing to stop you from experimenting with it yourself. It could turn out to be pretty cool!

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