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Chained translation path display

Open sushain97 opened this issue 8 years ago • 7 comments

It would be cool to have chained translation display the path taken to get from say eng => kaz.

@jonorthwash

sushain97 avatar Jan 08 '17 22:01 sushain97

IMHO, this is not particularly relevant information for the end user.

ghost avatar Jan 14 '17 23:01 ghost

It's super useful! :D ... It's useful for determining how reliable the translation is, both in terms of 1) how many steps, 2) which languages it goes through, e.g. spa-cat-ita is more reliable than eus-eng-fin

ftyers avatar Jan 14 '17 23:01 ftyers

Well, yeah it is useful if you know those things already, so for more advanced user it is quite useful information and thus +1 for this feature from me, too.

ghost avatar Jan 14 '17 23:01 ghost

I was thinking of the best way to display this... Perhaps this?

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sushain: wouldn't that be potentially very long? shardulc, yeah :(

sushain97 avatar Jan 15 '17 20:01 sushain97

Alternative:

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https://gist.github.com/sushain97/e3a6077da7c21399847a21dd94e3daa3

sushain97 avatar Jan 15 '17 20:01 sushain97

This was discussed on #apertium intermittently from [19:13:13] on 2017-01-14 to [01:18:24] on 2017-01-15, and again from [20:14:45] onwards on 2017-01-15. So far, the ideas are:

  1. visually display the graph of paths so that the user can select from them as wanted, colors and other candy would be cool
  2. have a dropdown list (where?) which lists all possible paths, maybe up to a length limit beyond which the user can specify them manually

shardulc avatar Jan 15 '17 20:01 shardulc

What if we have the ‘?’ icon next to the translate button instead of on it?

jonorthwash avatar Jan 15 '17 21:01 jonorthwash