Hi,
Thank you Brianna for letting us know that. It's quite interesting.
I'm fully supportive for your proposal.
At Wikimania2007 I heard some of our volunteers use exactly interwiki
links and *then* dictionaries either online or in paper to look
translation of words up. Also I heard several outside people use
Wikipedia just in this purpose - to looking up the meaning of foreign
words. So I think it would make a sense this looking up is down into
an automatic search and benefit search engines :) And if we know the
people who are working on that ... why not contact them? Thought?
On 9/13/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
PanImages Image Search Tool Speaks Hundreds Of
Languages
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/news/2007/09/12/panimages-image-search-too…
quote:
PanImages' powerful brains were created by scanning more than 350
machine-readable online dictionaries. Some of these were
"wiktionaries," online multilingual dictionaries written by
volunteers. The PanImages software scans these dictionaries and uses
an algorithm to check the accuracy of the results. It then assembles
the results in a matrix that allows translation in combinations that
may never have been attempted — for instance, from Gujarati to
Lithuanian.
The actual search engine is here:
http://www.panimages.org/index.jsp?displang=eng
And the research paper detailing the algorithm and method is here:
http://turing.cs.washington.edu/papers/EtzioniMTSummit07.pdf
An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to improve image search
for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate
with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else
ask them to index
upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license
metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for
free.
cheers,
Brianna
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