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| author | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2010-03-28 19:29:06 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> | 2010-03-28 19:29:06 +0000 |
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diff --git a/examples/phrasebook/phrasebook.html b/examples/phrasebook/phrasebook.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bad1acc4b --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/phrasebook/phrasebook.html @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> +<TITLE>MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook</TITLE> +</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black"> +<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>MOLTO Multilingual Phrasebook</H1> +<FONT SIZE="4"> +<I>Aarne Ranta</I><BR> +</FONT></CENTER> + +<P> +History +</P> +<UL> +<LI>Version 0.1, 26 March 2010. Eng, Fin, Fre, Ron; dedicated minibar UI. +<LI>Version 0.2, 28 March. Swe; cat Action; small phrases. +</UL> + +<H1>Purpose</H1> +<P> +This phrasebook is a programme for translating touristic phrases +between 15 European languages: +</P> +<UL> +<LI>Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, + Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, + Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish +</UL> + +<P> +It is implemented by using the GF programming language +(<A HREF="http://grammaticalframework.org">Grammatical Framework</A>). +It is the first demo for the MOLTO project +(<A HREF="http://www.molto-project.eu">Multilingual On-Line Translation</A>). +</P> +<P> +The phrasebook has the following requirements: +</P> +<UL> +<LI>high quality: reliable translations +<LI>translation from any language to any other ones +<LI>runnable in web browsers +<LI>runnable on mobile phones (also off-line: forthcoming for Android phones) +<LI>easily extensible by new words (forthcoming: semi-automatic extensions by users) +</UL> + +<P> +The phrasebook is available as open-source software, licensed under GNU LGPL. +The source code resides in +<A HREF="http://code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/"><CODE>code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/</CODE></A> +</P> +<P> +Current status (28 March 2010): +</P> +<UL> +<LI>available in English, Finnish, French, Romanian, Swedish +<LI>very small coverage +<LI>works on web browsers calling a server +<LI>web service not yet released, but preliminarily available + <A HREF="http://tournesol.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/phrasebook/phrasebook.html">here</A> +</UL> + +<H1>Points illustrated</H1> +<P> +The use of resource grammars and functors. +</P> +<P> +Compile-time transfer: especially, in Action in Words. +</P> +<P> +Quasi-incremental translation: many basic types are also used as phrases. +</P> +<P> +Disambiguation, esp. by the parameters in Roles. +</P> +<H1>Files</H1> +<P> +abstract Sentences: general syntactic structures implementable by functor +</P> +<UL> +<LI>concrete by functor SencencesI +<P></P> +abstract Words: words and predicates, typically language-dependent +<LI>concrete separate +<P></P> +abstract Greetings: idiomatic phrases, strings with role dependence +<LI>concrete separate +<P></P> +abstract Phrasebook: put everything everything together +<LI>concrete separate +<P></P> +resource Roles: param Politeness, Gender +<P></P> +interface DiffPhrasebook: the (so far small) interface for Sentences +</UL> + +<H1>To Do</H1> +<P> +Text-based translation interface. +</P> +<P> +Access to disambiguation grammars in the interface. +</P> +<P> +The remaining 10 languages +</P> +<P> +Extract/construct lexica for +</P> +<UL> +<LI>food stuff +<LI>languages +<LI>places +</UL> + + +<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.4 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> +<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -thtml phrasebook.txt --> +</BODY></HTML> |