Machine Translation

[Doug Ewell]

Felix Sasaki <felix dot sasaki at fh dash potsdam dot de>: wrote:

> Other practical information which one could not pack into a broad data 
> category "machine translation" easily (to use Peter's terminology), 
> but not easily in the "language tag" field would be: name of system 
> that generated the translation (maybe several ones where used ...), 
> quality of the input, quality rating of the system (e.g. BLEU score). 
> IMO these fine grained differences are necessary for making use of 
> this kind of metadata, and I don't see a clear use case for a broad 
> "machine translated" sub tag.

This is exactly why, IF this type of information is to be captured in a 
BCP 47 tag at all, it would be better to create an extension rather than 
registering a suite of variants, more or less haphazardly, which might 
impose too much specificity on some uses and not enough on others.

We should probably have the "BCP 47 or not" debate first, and only then, 
if it is decided to support this in BCP 47, worry about whether to use 
variants or extensions.

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