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HTML
78 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.org">
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<TITLE>Translation with GF</TITLE>
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</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black">
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<CENTER>
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<H1>Translation with GF</H1>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><I>Powered by multilingual grammars</I></FONT><BR>
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</CENTER>
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<H1>Try it online</H1>
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<P>
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<B>Coming soon</B>:
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<I>Here you will be able to select your source and target language and translate whatever you want.</I>
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</P>
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<H1>Download an app</H1>
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<B>Coming soon</B>: <I>link to an Android app, with a barcode.</I>
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</P>
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<H1>What you can expect</H1>
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<P>
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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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<UL>
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<LI>It uses <B>grammars</B> (as opposed to statistics), which makes it more correct in many cases.
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<LI>It is <B>open source</B>, which means you can inspect, copy, and modify it in what ever way you want.
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<LI>It is <B>light weight</B>, so that you can run it on your own computer and even on a smartphone.
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<LI>It gives you <B>linguistic information</B>, such as word inflections.
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<LI>It gives you <B>confidence information</B>, warning about translations that it is not so sure about.
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</UL>
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<P>
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However, this is not a mature product but a research prototype. It therefore has some shortcomings:
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<LI>It has <B>limited coverage</B>, which means that it misses many words and syntactic constructions.
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<LI>It can be <B>clumsy</B>, for instance when it doesn't detect an idiom but translates too literally.
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<LI>It can be <B>slow</B>, in particular with long sentences and with some input languages.
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</UL>
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<P>
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Here are some hints to use it in a satisfactory way:
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<UL>
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<LI>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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<LI>Take a look at the alternative translations, in particular for sentences with low confidence level.
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<LI>Send us feedback, and consider contributing to the improvement of the system!
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</UL>
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<H1>How it works</H1>
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Powered by <A HREF="../">Grammatical Framework</A>
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</P>
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<P>
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Publications explaining the translation method:
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</P>
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<H1>Get the sources</H1>
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<P>
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Download from <A HREF="../download/">here</A>
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</P>
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