http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/ An Irreverent Look at the Glocalized World Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:26:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-251949 Translational Communication News Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:10:59 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-251949 [...] A good alternative is a recent summit attempted to bring together different projects, an initiative for open translation tools, which has just started. Ethan Zuckerman reports from the summit that “there was widespread agreement that Google’s machine translation tools were far from perfect – and sometimes farcically bad – they’ve been getting lots better and some participants wondered whether we should be putting the effort into building new social translation systems if they’re going to obviate all our work in a few years. Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to stop work because we think Google might be working on the same issues.” And David Sasacki describes why Global Voices decide to opt for open translation tools. [...] [...] A good alternative is a recent summit attempted to bring together different projects, an initiative for open translation tools, which has just started. Ethan Zuckerman reports from the summit that “there was widespread agreement that Google’s machine translation tools were far from perfect – and sometimes farcically bad – they’ve been getting lots better and some participants wondered whether we should be putting the effort into building new social translation systems if they’re going to obviate all our work in a few years. Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to stop work because we think Google might be working on the same issues.” And David Sasacki describes why Global Voices decide to opt for open translation tools. [...]

]]> http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-250309 Mallory Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:12:13 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-250309 Also there's http://dotsub.com which I really enjoy using. Social Networking + Video Sharing = Lots of Translated Content! Also there’s http://dotsub.com which I really enjoy using. Social Networking + Video Sharing = Lots of Translated Content!

]]> http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2009/07/03/open-translation-tools-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-241310 El Oso Blogs the OTT Conference « Global Voices Translation Exchange Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:57 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/?p=1667#comment-241310 [...] with little pop up photos and a small cartoon of a bear peering Kilroy-like over a wall, click here. Or just keep reading [...] [...] with little pop up photos and a small cartoon of a bear peering Kilroy-like over a wall, click here. Or just keep reading [...]

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