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authoraarne <aarne@chalmers.se>2014-04-24 07:15:48 +0000
committeraarne <aarne@chalmers.se>2014-04-24 07:15:48 +0000
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<html>
<body>
-<h1>The Human Language Compiler - a mobile translation app for Android</h1>
+<h1>The Human Language Compiler - a mobile speech and text translation app for Android</h1>
<center>
<img src="images/app-trans.png" width=200>
</center>
<p>
-Here you can download a <a href="http://grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/GFHLC.apk">test version</a>;
-also coming to Play Store soon.
+Download a <a href="http://grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/HLCompiler.apk">test version</a>;
+coming to Play Store soon.
</p>
<p>
+Or try first a
+<a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/wc.html">web version of the translator</a>
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
The Human Language Compiler is a translator for human language based on
programming language technology. Therefore it is compact in size
-and gives control on quality, indicating confidence with colours:
+and gives control on quality. It indicates confidence with colours:
<ul>
<li><b>Green</b>:
semantic translation, should be correct.
@@ -37,26 +43,25 @@ and gives control on quality, indicating confidence with colours:
</p>
<p>
-The Human Languge Compiler works completely off-line, without
-internet connection, although being on-line may give you better
-speech input and output.
-The app is small (around 23 MB for all languages).
-We do not show ads.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The Human Language Compiler translates both speech and text.
+You can translate both speech and text, as selected in the menu.
It works between any pair of the supported languages, which means 110
-language pairs at the moment.
-However, it works optimally <b>from English</b> and also from Swedish.
-From other languages it can be slow and give more red results.
-But expect frequent updates and improvements!
+language pairs at the moment. But there are some caveats:
+<ul>
+ <li> The app works optimally <b>from English</b> and also from <b>Swedish</b>.
+ <li> From other languages it can be slow and give more red results.
+ <li> The dictionaries can have errors, since they are partly extracted automatically.
+ <li> Speech input from <b>Hindi</b> and output to <b>Bulgarian</b> don't work currently.
+ <li> In <b>Chinese</b>, speech input is Mandarin but output is Cantonese (Yue).
+</ul>
+As we are constantly working on the app, expect frequent updates and improvements!
</p>
<p>
When you tap on a translation you get a screen with <b>alternative translations</b>.
-If the input is only a single word, then tapping on each of the alternatives
-gives you <b>grammatical information</b> about the word.
+Tapping on each of the alternatives
+gives you <b>grammatical information</b>:
+an inflection table, if it is a single word,
+and a syntax tree otherwise.
</p>
<p>
@@ -65,15 +70,30 @@ an alternative keyboard which allows you to do translation from
other applications, for instance while you are entering SMS or e-mail.
To activate it go to Settings > Language &amp; input.
</p>
+
+<p>
+The Human Languge Compiler works <b>completely off-line</b>, without
+internet connection, although being on-line may give you better
+speech input and output.
+The app is small (around 23 MB for all languages).
+We do not show ads.
+</p>
+
<p>
Powered by <a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">GF</a>,
-built by <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>.
+built by support from the GF community and from <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>.
</p>
<p>
<i>Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs - tell us what you want to see
in the green area!</i>
</p>
+<p>
+Publication: <a
+href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E14/E14-2011.pdf">EACL 2014
+demo paper</a>
+</p>
+
<center>
<img src="images/app-table.png" width=160>
<img src="images/app-disamb.png" width=160>