- From: Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS <gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:29:22 -0500
- To: "M.T. Carrasco Benitez" <carrasco@innet.lu>
- Cc: WInter <www-international@www10.w3.org>
M. T. Carrasco Benitez writes: > Should translations request be included in the same model as linguistic > versions. Translations request (to humans or machine) could be > considered as "virtual linguistics versions"; i.e., the do not exist at > this moment, but they can be available. > > Transliterations could be included in this model. > > If this is the case, some nomenclature should be defined. Example: > > it-ht (Italian, human translation) > it-mt (Italian, machine translation) > > Tomas > > This could get very interested in negotiating the language quality. e.g. Accept-Language: it:q=1.0, it-mt;q=0.7, it-ht;q=0.5 (If you can't get an original Italian document make sure the machine translation is better than the rough human draft.) Having a standard measureable q-value may be all that is really required? e.g. it-mt;q=0.5 == it-ht;q=0.5
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