[bug-gettext] [bug #55871] Integrate with machine translation tools

[Bruno Haible]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55871>

                 Summary: Integrate with machine translation tools
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: haible
            Submitted on: Sat 09 Mar 2019 05:57:08 PM CET
                Category: Translator tools
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Machine translation is getting better over the years, thanks to advances in
AI: machine translation based on neural networks and deep learning is
significantly better than machine translation based on statistical models.

An approach that works in practice is machine translation followed by
post-editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postediting .

The GNU gettext tools, in particular msginit, ought to have an option that
allows to easily use free machine translation tools.

We should only integrate to free (GPLed/LGPLed) machine translation software,
because the GNU maintainers guide
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Ethical-and-Philosophical-Consideration.html
says "A GNU package should not recommend use of any non-free program".

Fortunately such free machine translation software exists nowadays, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_machine_translation_applications .
For another list, see http://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/machine.html .
There is also ModernMT https://github.com/modernmt/MMT .




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