In the course of dealing with some spanish language account requests, I got interested in having some movement alternative to babelfish and google translate.
I spent a couple of days building my own translation system, but eventually decided that 50+ years of statistical machine translation has been good for something, and I shouldn’t recreate it.
Fortunately, there is a well-developed suite of open-source machine translation tools available now, Apertium.
- wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Minimal_installa...
- wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Howto_install_on...
- wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium-service
It was relatively straight-forward to get this all running on my laptop, and with a little python and javascript wrapped around it, I made a bookmarklet that I am pretty happy with.
Unfortunately, nest is crashing right now, and I can’t show off just how amazing it is.
Here is what the process might look like:
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Etherpad Notes – labs.riseup.net:9000/DEx7Ayn7mF |
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try it out: bfb.riseup.net:8080 |
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nice |
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