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Kanntu íslensku? Hjálpaðu til með því að þýða orð sem kerfið þekkir ekki ennþá.

Icelandic to English machine translation prototype.
Written by Ingvi Gautsson in the cold winter of 2011.

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• This is a prototype, there is still some work to be done.
• Written in Python using MongoDB and MySQL databases.
• Source text length is limited to limit CPU load and translation time.
• Datasets used:
  • Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls dataset compiled by Kristín Bjarnadóttir.
  The Árni Magnússon Institude gets special thanks for making this fantastic database easily available online.
  • Icelandic Wiki dictionary
  • Icelandic Wikipedia
  • Crowdsourced web input for unresolved words.
  • N-grams data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) - Davies, Mark.
  • Icelandic personal names derived from Icelandic National Registry.
  • British English Example Pronunciations version 1.0 - Robinson, Tony - Cambridge University.
  • Icelandic street names and postal codes dataset from Pósturinn.