User:Ote/proposal
Open Translation Engine (OTE) Version 2.0
Proposal for NLnet[1]
Abstract
The goal of the OTE project is to solve two problems found today within the open source translation community:
Crowdsourcing
How can a large and divergent group of users easily build and manage translation dictionaries online? The OTE will provide a suite of web-based tools to bring people together in the various tasks needed to build a workable translation dictionary.
Dictionary Unification
How can we unify the numerous open content translation dictionaries available online? The OTE will support the import and export of many formats currently used by active open content/open source translation projects. Special attention will be paid to Apertium and Linguaphile (machine translation projects) and Wiktionary and Omegawiki (Wiki-based dictionaries)
Project
Core System
Conversion to Unicode - The current prototype is not unicode aware. Unicode is an absolute necessity to continue the project with all possible word languages.
Genericization of code base - The OTE will be built to be as generic as possible, thus allowing for ease of future enhancements. Currently the prototype code is hard coded with the Dutch/English language pair.
Install Procedure - Installation will be made as user-friendy as possible.
Documentation
User System
User accounts
User Permissions
User administration
Core Tools
Word Viewer
Dictionary Viewer
Dictionary Import / Export
Formats: CSV, database(MySQL) dump, OTE XML, Apertium XML, Linguaphile .pm
Word-2-Word Translator
Classroom Tools
Random Word, Flash Cards, Word Lists
Community Tools
The OTE allows users, based on their account permissions, to either "suggest" a change, or to "commit" a change.
Users may modify the folling items:
Individual Word
Tagging: Parts of Speech for a Word
Noun Editor - Singular, Plural, Masculine/Feminine, Etc.
Adjective Editor -
Verb Editor -
Translation Word Pairs
Languages
Add, Modify, or Delete a language from the OTE database. This is mostly an administrator task, but can be fully community driven.
Version System
Using the wiki model, all changes are stored, allowing reversion to any previous state.
