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diff --git a/demos/translation.html b/demos/translation.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9676d9543 --- /dev/null +++ b/demos/translation.html @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.org"> +<TITLE>Translation with GF</TITLE> +</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black"> +<CENTER> +<H1>Translation with GF</H1> +<FONT SIZE="4"><I>Powered by multilingual grammars</I></FONT><BR> +</CENTER> + + +<H1>Try it online</H1> + +<P> +<B>Coming soon</B>: +<I>Here you will be able to select your source and target language and translate whatever you want.</I> +</P> + +<H1>Download an app</H1> + +<P> +<B>Coming soon</B>: <I>link to an Android app, with a barcode.</I> +</P> + +<H1>What you can expect</H1> + +<P> +The program is designed to translate anything, just like Google translate and Bing. It has some advantages over them: +</P> + +<UL> +<LI>It uses <B>grammars</B> (as opposed to statistics), which makes it more correct in many cases. +<LI>It is <B>open source</B>, which means you can inspect, copy, and modify it in what ever way you want. +<LI>It is <B>light weight</B>, so that you can run it on your own computer and even on a smartphone. +<LI>It gives you <B>linguistic information</B>, such as word inflections. +<LI>It gives you <B>confidence information</B>, warning about translations that it is not so sure about. +</UL> + +<P> +However, this is not a mature product but a research prototype. It therefore has some shortcomings: +</P> + +<UL> +<LI>It has <B>limited coverage</B>, which means that it misses many words and syntactic constructions. +<LI>It can be <B>clumsy</B>, for instance when it doesn't detect an idiom but translates too literally. +<LI>It can be <B>slow</B>, in particular with long sentences and with some input languages. +</UL> + +<P> +Here are some hints to use it in a satisfactory way: +</P> + +<UL> +<LI>Start with short sentences (less than ten words), preferably from English or Swedish, to get an idea of the best performance. +<LI>Take a look at the alternative translations, in particular for sentences with low confidence level. +<LI>Send us feedback, and consider contributing to the improvement of the system! +</UL> + +<H1>How it works</H1> + +<P> +Powered by <A HREF="../">Grammatical Framework</A> +</P> +<P> +Publications explaining the translation method: +</P> + +<H1>Get the sources</H1> + +<P> +Download from <A HREF="../download/">here</A> +</P> + +<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.6 (http://txt2tags.org) --> +<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -thtml translation.t2t --> +</BODY></HTML> |