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<h1>The Human Language Compiler - a mobile speech and text translation app for Android</h1>
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<img src="images/app-trans.png" width=200>
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<p>
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Download a <a href="http://grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/HLCompiler.apk">test version</a>;
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coming to Play Store soon.
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</p>
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<p>
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Or try first a
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<a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/wc.html">web version of the translator</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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The Human Language Compiler is a translator for human language based on
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programming language technology. Therefore it is compact in size
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and gives control on quality. It indicates confidence with colours:
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<ul>
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<li><b>Green</b>:
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semantic translation, should be correct.
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But not necessarily the only correct one.
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</li>
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<li><b>Yellow</b>:
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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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</li>
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<li><b>Light red</b>:
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chunk translation, probably incorrect.
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Builds the translation from small pieces.
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</li>
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<li><b>Dark red</b>:
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word-by-word translation, almost certainly incorrect.
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Builds the translation word by word.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>
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You can translate both speech and text, as selected in the menu.
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It works between any pair of the supported languages, which means 110
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language pairs at the moment. But there are some caveats:
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<ul>
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<li> The app works optimally <b>from English</b> and also from <b>Swedish</b>.
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<li> From other languages it can be slow and give more red results.
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<li> The dictionaries can have errors, since they are partly extracted automatically.
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<li> Speech input from <b>Hindi</b> and output to <b>Bulgarian</b> don't work currently.
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<li> In <b>Chinese</b>, speech input is Mandarin but output is Cantonese (Yue).
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</ul>
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As we are constantly working on the app, expect frequent updates and improvements!
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</p>
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When you tap on a translation you get a screen with <b>alternative translations</b>.
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Tapping on each of the alternatives
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gives you <b>grammatical information</b>:
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an inflection table, if it is a single word,
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and a syntax tree otherwise.
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</p>
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The app also provides an <b>input method</b> which you can use as
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an alternative keyboard which allows you to do translation from
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other applications, for instance while you are entering SMS or e-mail.
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To activate it go to Settings > Language & input.
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</p>
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<p>
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The Human Languge Compiler works <b>completely off-line</b>, without
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internet connection, although being on-line may give you better
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speech input and output.
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The app is small (around 23 MB for all languages).
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We do not show ads.
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<p>
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Powered by <a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">GF</a>,
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built by support from the GF community and from <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>.
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<i>Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs - tell us what you want to see
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in the green area!</i>
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</p>
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<p>
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Publication: <a
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href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E14/E14-2011.pdf">EACL 2014
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demo paper</a>
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<center>
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<img src="images/app-table.png" width=160>
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<img src="images/app-disamb.png" width=160>
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</center>
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