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Translation with GF
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Powered by multilingual grammars
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%!style:../css/style0.css
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%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.svg" alt=""></a>
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%!postproc(html): #GFWCT <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 50ex;" src="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/wc.html#embed"></iframe>
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==Try it online==
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%**Coming soon**:
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%//Here you will be able to select your source and target language and translate% whatever you want.//
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#GFWCT
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==Download the app==
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[App description and download page ./app.html]
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==Colours==
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- **Green: semantic translation**, should be correct.
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But not necessarily the only correct one.
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- **Yellow: syntactic translation**, should be grammatically correct.
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But can be very strange in its interpretation and choice of words.
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- **Light red: chunk translation**, probably incorrect.
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Builds the translation from small pieces.
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- **Dark red: word-by-word translation**, almost certainly incorrect.
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Builds the translation word by word and returns unknown words verbatim.
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==What you can expect==
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The program is designed to translate anything, just like Google translate and Bing. It has some advantages over them:
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- It uses **grammars** (as opposed to statistics), which makes it more correct in many cases.
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- It is **open source**, which means you can inspect, copy, and modify it in what ever way you want.
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- It is **light weight**, so that you can run it on your own computer and even on a smartphone.
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- It gives you **linguistic information**, such as word inflections.
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- It gives you **confidence information**, warning about translations that it is not so sure about.
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However, this is not a mature product but a research prototype. It therefore has some shortcomings:
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- It has **limited coverage**, which means that it misses many words and syntactic constructions.
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- It can be **clumsy**, for instance when it doesn't detect an idiom but translates too literally.
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- It can be **slow**, in particular with long sentences and with some input languages.
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Here are some hints to use it in a satisfactory way:
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- Start with short sentences (less than ten words), preferably from English or Swedish, to get an idea of the best performance.
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- Take a look at the alternative translations, in particular for sentences with low confidence level.
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- Send us feedback, and consider contributing to the improvement of the system!
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The following table gives a rough idea of what to expect for each
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language (the speech column refers to the Android app):
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'''
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<center>
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<table rules=all border=yes>
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<tr> <th></th> <th>coverage</th> <th>quality</th> <th>speed</th> <th>speech</th> </tr>
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<tr> <th>Bulgarian</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td></tr>
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<tr> <th>Chinese</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>diff in/out</td> </tr>
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<tr> <th>Dutch</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr>
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<tr> <th>English</th> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr>
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<tr> <th>Finnish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr>
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<tr> <th>French</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr>
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<tr> <th>German</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr>
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<tr> <th>Hindi</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>out only</td> </tr>
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<tr> <th>Italian</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr>
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<tr> <th>Spanish</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr>
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<tr> <th>Swedish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr>
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</table>
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</center>
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'''
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==How it works==
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Powered by [Grammatical Framework ../]
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[Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1545yYmTlWgzyV1uwUwuvAsOCzdD1AIUdV_NZbZ1qMEo/edit?usp=sharing]
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explaining the translation method:
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==Get the sources==
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Download from [here ../download/]
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==Send us feedback==
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