[Foundation-l] Swahili Machine Translation First Run Completed for enwiki-20060817

Tue Aug 29 19:13:47 UTC 2006

Martin Benjamin wrote:

> 
>  It looks like someone started with a smallish Swahili-English 
>wordlist, plugged that into an English thesaurus, and extrapolated 
>dozens of additional English equivalents per word, yielding an 
>intriguing but lexicographically suspect set of equivalencies.
>  
>

Actually, I used yours from the Kamusi project. All of this needs review 
and correction.
I went through the Cherokee versions and corrected them by hand. Took 
weeks of tedious work,
and we are still working on more.

But for four hours of work, pretty good progress .... :-)

:-)

Jeff