[Project-ideas] gsoc 2012 project idea---A Glossary Tool to index all available localizable strings for Bengali across various FOSS projects and, other available corpus

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hi Subhobrata,

First up, please try and avoid breaking the thread for an email conversation. It
gets difficult to keep track of the responses. Also, if you don't see me on IRC
(especially late nights) then please do feel free to drop me an email. :)

Secondly, I suspect you are trying to propose an automatic machine translation
solution. Which is not the aim for this particular project. This project aims at
providing one of the essential aids for localization i.e. glossaries via
tools/methods that can integrate and extend translation data into suitable
presentation formats and also be scalable for extension of features.


regards
Runa

(intentional top-post)

On বৃহস্পতিবার 22 মার্চ 2012 07:44 
, Subhobrata Dey wrote:
> Hello ma'am, thank you for your reply. Well,i propose a formal solution for
> this project based on your reply & studying the translators like
> lokalize,virtaal etc. First of all,i went through the lokalize documentation
>  & the source code(since i love kde) from which i mainly got the idea for
> this project. While lokalize uses paragraph-by-paragraph translation
> technique, i think using a sentence-by-sentence translation technique
> followed by using a word-by-word translation is far more efficient. The idea
> mainly came after reading this article: link <http://Quick%20View> Here i'm
> elaborating the idea: We can classify english-bengali translation into the
> following ways: 1>Assertive sentence I will go to bazaar. আমি বাজারে যাব
> Here the predicate goes to the end & the subject after it comes forward. If I
> were a bird! যদি আমি পাখি হতাম these are same class of sentences....
> 2>Interrogative sentence Are you reading a book? তুমি কি বঽ পডছ? Here
> predicate & subjects are swapped 3>Ordering Give me the book! বঽটা আমাকে দাও
> There are a few common exceptions like, for 'the' ' টা' can be used.for
> 'please' 'দয়া করে' can be used. But majority of the translations must fall
> into these categories. So,my idea is for each sentence in english we first
> need to decide what kind of a sentence it is.Then apply word-by-word
> translation on it to convert it to bengali & take the help of glossary to
> substitute english subjects & predicates with their bengali version(However
> a few may not have their bengali translations,appropriate measures need to
> be taken for that.Haven't thought about that as yet :P).This will obviously
> not give the correct result.So,from the info regarding the kind of sentence
> we can swap the bengali words to get the right result!!Thus
> sentence-by-sentence of a paragraph is translated. Apart from this,i also saw
> that there are shortcuts for words & phrases in lokalize while giving input
> which i think should be implemented for the sake of users. In this way, a
> successful glossary cum translator can be created. Finally,there can be
> mistakes & because of that i'm posting this in the mailing list.
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> Btw,I'm not posting the section "about me" as of now.Please mention if you
> need that or any other info from me.....i'll be extremely happy to provide
> them to you.
>
> Thanking you, -- subhobrata
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