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If only there were any non-European languages.
by bobthepanda 3y ago
If only there were any non-European languages.
- jsnell 3y agoYou have to start somewhere. If you wait until you have full coverage of all languages before launching, it'll be years of waiting until you find out whether the concept actually works at all. (Because the goal here is obviously for this to either drive more Firefox adoption, or at least improve retention, they're not just doing it for fun.)
- bobthepanda 3y agoI don’t think it has to cover every single language to be useful, but of the big ones I’m surprised there’s no Chinese or Japanese at all, not even in beta, considering the amount of translation demand.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoChinese, Japanese, and Korean would be the languages I need more often than Western languages. This is usually because there is often an English variant of sites in EU, even sites in India.
- no_time 3y agoWell, it was funded by EU citizens. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303
- duskwuff 3y agoTranslating between European languages is easier for a couple of key reasons: 1) In most cases, European languages are fairly closely related to each other, so there's less inherent "impedance mismatch" in translation than there would be to a more distant language. 2) The EU translates many of its official documents to the official languages of its member states. This makes for a large corpus of high-quality training material, e.g. https://www.sketchengine.eu/eur-lex-parallel-corpus/ https://www.sketchengine.eu/eur-lex-parallel-corpus/