Talk:Content translation/Machine Translation/MinT

is there a Mint team to suggest translation corrections ?

is there a Mint team to whom i could suggest directly the FR translation correction of suggestions help rather than opening each time a task in Phabricator (see T346333 T336434 T336440) ? Thanks. --Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 09:56, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest in the project, Christian.

MinT is a service created by the Wikimedia Foundation Language team and it runs translation models that have been released by other organizations with an open-source license. So the degree of direct action for the Language team may be different depending on the specific type of issue.

The translation models provide translations based on all the data that was used for their training. If they translate a sentence with a sub-optimal choice of words, there is not much that can be improved immediately. If the project supports some kind of contribution, you can provide more samples of correct translations so that the next version of the models is based on better data and results in better translations. For the case of OpusMT models, translating Wikipedia articles with Content Translation or sentences in Tatoeba is a simple way to contribute quality translations to their repository.

The Language team is working on different aspects on top of these external models: pre-process, sentence segmentation, post-processing, extracting and reapplying markup to support the translation of rich text and wikitext markup. Issues related to those are useful test cases that will be helpful to improve the support and validate that those features works for as many cases as possible.

Often it is hard to know in advance whether a given issue can be fixed as part of the improvements on the MinT infrastructure we control or it would require better models. Phabricator tickets are very well appreciated to capture issues and the team will investigate to determine whether there are improvements that can be made. If you are interested in providing more general feedback or ask questions, feel free to participate in the project talk page.

You can read more about the project and the different initiatives in the project page for MinT.

Thanks! Pginer-WMF (talk) 13:23, 25 September 2023 (UTC)