Hi Barrack, 

Thanks for sharing the resource. 

I would like to clarify something. We have changed our course and we are not approaching the problem as a translation issue. Rather, we want computers to actually learn the syntax and grammar rules of Swahili and English. What we will do is pick phrases from different articles in both languages, i.e if we take an entry on JAVA language in Swahili, the other shall be lets say an article on Coffee. 

After that, if we develop a good enough rule base, we shall try to apply if for data collected from detectors monitoring the decay of sub-atomic particles (quarks) from a Physics experiment. I hope that explains it better, you can see more here: http://shdnairobi.pbworks.com/w/page/66494507/SHD%20Nairobi%202013%2C%20Hack%20ideas (look at the second project)

Martin.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Colleagues,

http://www.isoc-ke.org/wiki/Orodha_Ya_Msamiati

Best Regards


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Tony, 

As I had mentioned before, we are taking a different approach by using both Swahili and English entries on Wikipedia as training sets. Also, we are not using the data for any commercial use. At the same time, content from the wiki is provided for gratis(?) licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. 

Martin.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know how legal/agreeable this may be....
How about pulling the text from a random website/blog that has equivalent transcripts  in both languages?

In mind I have http://bitcoins.co.ke/index.html <--- Bitcoins Not BanglaPesa!! 
Maybe you'll first have to contact the owners of such sites for their consent.

Tony.

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