Submissions/Fatg Persian-Tajik article translator

After careful consideration, the Programme Committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2014 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August.

Submission no. 5020

Title of the submission: Fatg Persian-Tajik article translator

Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop): presentation

Author of the submission: Pouyana

E-mail address: Email

Username: Pouyana

Country of origin: Iran-Germany

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Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

During the Wikimania 2012 in Washington D.C, I had a chance to speak with Amir, which gave me the idea of article translation from Persian Wikipedia to Tajik. Persian is spoken mainly in Iran and Afghanistan and uses the Arabic alphabets in the written form. On the other hand Tajik is the same as Persian language, spoken in Tajikistan and parts of Afghanistan and has the only difference of using Cyrillic in written form. Persian Wikipedia at the moment is the largest Wikipedia in the middle east and has far more articles than the Tajik version. This Tool has a goal of making the translation possible. Several methods have been tested to achieve the possible results. Fuzzy Logic, Bulk Data Collection from both Wikipedias and Internet, character conversion, machine-learning and at the end crowd-sourcing to lessen the errors. During the process there were(are) several problems to address. These problems and possible solutions will be discussed. As these kind of works are new in both languages, the results would be very interesting. The accuracy of the methods and time consumption for the correction and also users involvement in the project will be shown. There will be a presentation about the tool itself too. It is hosted on WMFLABS platform and uses several programming (scripting) languages like Python, PHP and JavaScript. As said before there are some unresolved problems. These are going to be described and maybe there are some new ideas or feedbacks from the audience.

Track

Technology, Interface & Infrastructure

Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long): 30 minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: yes

Slides or further information (optional)

The tool is, at the moment, incomplete but the source code would be available in April. The delay is mostly because of creating the user crowd-sourcing interface.

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