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MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook
Aarne Ranta
=Purpose=
This phrasebook is a programme for translating touristic phrases
between 15 European languages:
- Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
It is implemented by using the GF programming language
([Grammatical Framework http://grammaticalframework.org]).
It is the first demo for the MOLTO project
([Multilingual On-Line Translation http://www.molto-project.eu]).
The phrasebook has the following requirements:
- high quality: reliable translations
- translation from any language to any other ones
- runnable in web browsers
- runnable on mobile phones (also off-line: forthcoming for Android phones)
- easily extensible by new words (forthcoming: semi-automatic extensions by users)
The phrasebook is available as open-source software, licensed under GNU LGPL.
The source code resides in
[``code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/`` http://code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/]
Current status (28 March 2010):
- available in English, Finnish, French, Romanian, Swedish
- very small coverage
- works on web browsers calling a server
- web service not yet released, but preliminarily available
[here http://tournesol.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/phrasebook/phrasebook.html]