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Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:27PM (#21349375)
Bergamot has an entire work package devoted to helping you fill out forms in a language you don't speak, while being confident that your answers are correct. We're testing out concepts here: https://github.com/zouharvi/ptakopet .
Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:24PM (#21349343)
Actually, the winner of the shared task on grammatical error correction https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/bea2019st/ is https://neural.mt/papers/edinburgh/bea19.pdf which uses the same machine translation codebase, Marian, as the Bergamot does.
Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:20PM (#21349300)
It's we're funded by the EU and the languages we're contractually obliged to launch are select EU languages. However, if successful, we hope Mozilla and the community will build more languages. We are are that CJKV is an important market.
Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:17PM (#21349269)
Hi, I'm the PI of Bergamot. We're funded by this call https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/port... and turned in the proposal on 18 April 2018. The project started 1 January 2019.
Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:09PM (#21349198)
Hi, I run the Bergamot project adding this function. We're planning to launch as an add-on or plug-in experience.