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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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<LI>26 March 2010. Version 0.1: Eng, Fin, Fre, Ron; dedicated minibar UI.
<LI>28 March. Version 0.2: Swe, Ita; cat Action; small phrases.
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Want to contribute? You can add <A HREF="missing.txt">missing words</A> by using the
<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/synopsis.html#toc78">morphological paradigms</A>.
The words are added to the <CODE>Words</CODE><I>L</I><CODE>.gf</CODE> files for each language <I>L</I>. Then recompile the
phrasebook by <CODE>make</CODE>. All this of course in the
<A HREF="http://code.haskell.org/gf/examples/phrasebook/">source directory</A>,
which you can obtain by
<A HREF="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/doc/gf-developers.html">GF Darcs</A>.
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<H1>Purpose</H1>
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This phrasebook is a programme for translating touristic phrases
between 15 European languages:
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<LI>Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
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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>).
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The phrasebook has the following requirements:
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<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)
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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>
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Current status (28 March 2010):
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<LI>available in English, Finnish, French, Italian, 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>
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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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<CODE>Sentences</CODE>: general syntactic structures implementable by
functor. Concrete syntax via <CODE>SencencesI</CODE>.
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<CODE>Words</CODE>: words and predicates, typically language-dependent. Separate
concrete syntaxes.
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<CODE>Greetings</CODE>: idiomatic phrases, string-based. Separate concrete
syntaxes.
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<CODE>Phrasebook</CODE>: the top module putting everything together. Separate
concrete syntaxes.
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Resource <CODE>Roles</CODE>: parameter types Politeness, Gender
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Interface <CODE>DiffPhrasebook</CODE>: 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
<LI>languages
<LI>places
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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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