machine translation, semantic analysis and life in China
Posted in adso on Mar 4th, 2008
What do people feel about switching the output of the “popup annotation” (the default output from the Adso home page and the popups on newsinchinese.com to a more comprehensive definition (something that includes all of the glosses in the database)? Right now Adso chooses the most likely definition/pos given its understanding of Chinese grammar. I’m […]
Posted in adso, translation on Feb 19th, 2008
This is a humble experiment in creating an online application to support Chinese-English translation. It’s also an experiment in radically simplifying web design, and a good example of the power our new Adso API provides to external web applications.
http://www.adsotrans.com/trans
I’ve designed this around my own needs, but would appreciate thoughts and feedback from other translators. I’ll […]
Posted in adso on Feb 17th, 2008
We had a bug report identified at Chinese-Forums this weekend involving support for traditional Chinese in Adso. Mainland users probably didn’t notice, but Adso wasn’t detecting traditional characters automatically the way it used to. The reason for this was simple - we hadn’t reimplemented the automatic detection of the traditional script after the shift to […]
Posted in adso on Feb 9th, 2008
I’ve been working on a plugin that integrates Adso with WordPress, so that anyone can offer on-click annotation of Chinese text. All about getting past translating and getting to discussing content.
I’m working on the plugin in the office right now, and it is frigid. Much warmer today than it’s been for the last week, I’ve […]