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<TITLE>MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook</TITLE>
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<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook</H1>
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<I>Aarne Ranta</I><BR>
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History
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<UL>
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<LI>Version 0.1, 26 March 2010. Eng, Fin, Fre, Ron; dedicated minibar UI.
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<LI>Version 0.2, 28 March. Swe, Ita; cat Action; small phrases.
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</UL>
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<H1>Purpose</H1>
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This phrasebook is a programme for translating touristic phrases
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between 15 European languages:
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<UL>
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<LI>Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English,
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Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
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Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
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</UL>
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It is implemented by using the GF programming language
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(<A HREF="http://grammaticalframework.org">Grammatical Framework</A>).
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It is the first demo for the MOLTO project
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(<A HREF="http://www.molto-project.eu">Multilingual On-Line Translation</A>).
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The phrasebook has the following requirements:
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<LI>high quality: reliable translations
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<LI>translation from any language to any other ones
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<LI>runnable in web browsers
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<LI>runnable on mobile phones (also off-line: forthcoming for Android phones)
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<LI>easily extensible by new words (forthcoming: semi-automatic extensions by users)
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</UL>
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The phrasebook is available as open-source software, licensed under GNU LGPL.
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The source code resides in
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<A HREF="http://code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/"><CODE>code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/</CODE></A>
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Current status (28 March 2010):
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<LI>available in English, Finnish, French, Italian, Romanian, Swedish
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<LI>very small coverage
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<LI>works on web browsers calling a server
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<LI>web service not yet released, but preliminarily available
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<A HREF="http://tournesol.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/phrasebook/phrasebook.html">here</A>
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</UL>
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<H1>Points illustrated</H1>
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The use of resource grammars and functors.
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Compile-time transfer: especially, in Action in Words.
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Quasi-incremental translation: many basic types are also used as phrases.
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Disambiguation, esp. by the parameters in Roles.
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<H1>Files</H1>
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abstract Sentences: general syntactic structures implementable by functor
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<LI>concrete by functor SencencesI
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abstract Words: words and predicates, typically language-dependent
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<LI>concrete separate
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abstract Greetings: idiomatic phrases, strings with role dependence
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<LI>concrete separate
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abstract Phrasebook: put everything together
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<LI>concrete separate
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resource Roles: param Politeness, Gender
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interface DiffPhrasebook: the (so far small) interface for Sentences
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<H1>To Do</H1>
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Text-based translation interface.
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Access to disambiguation grammars in the interface.
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The remaining 10 languages
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Extract/construct lexica for
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<LI>food stuff
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<LI>languages
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<LI>places
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</UL>
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Connection to Google translate, for fall-back and for comparison
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Feedback facility in the UI.
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