About the Machine Translate Foundation

The foundation for open information and community for machine translation


Machine Translation is a non-profit foundation building open information and community for machine translation.

“Open information and community for machine translation”

Table of contents
  1. Mission
  2. Values
    1. Quality
    2. Openness
    3. Accessibility
  3. Licensing
    1. Rights
    2. Requirements
    3. Restrictions
  4. Attribution
    1. Example
  5. Foundation
  6. Contributors and supporters
  7. Contact

Mission

The Machine Translate Foundation’s mission is to make machine translation more accessible to more people as the field of machine translation grows.

“Make machine translation more accessible to more people”

We do that by building open information and community for machine translation.

Values

Quality

Machine Translate content should be thorough, balanced, accurate and updated. Machine Translate content should be well-organized.

Openness

Machine Translate should be built transparently and decentrally. Machine Translate is open-source. Anybody in the world can read, contribute to, and see who has contributed to Machine Translate.

Accessibility

Machine Translate content should be accessible to people from many backgrounds and who speak many languages. Machine Translate content should be easy to understand and easy to machine translate.

Licensing

The content in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

CC BY-SA 4.0

The CC BY-SA licence is used for other open content, like Wikipedia, Mozilla, OpenStreetMap and Stack Overflow.

Rights

  • Sharing and reuse
  • Adaptation
  • Commercial use

Requirements

  • Attribution to Machine Translate
  • Linking to the licence
  • Licencing with the same licence

Restrictions

  • There is a restriction against adding more restrictions.

The full licence text is in the LICENSE file.

Attribution

This repository can be referenced using bibTeX citation style.

Example

@misc{machinetranslate,
  title = {machinetranslate.org},
  howpublished = {\url{https://machinetranslate.org/}},
  note = {Accessed: 2022-05-12}
}

Foundation

Machine Translate GmbH was founded in 2021.

“To provide open information about machine translation technology, products and business”

The society is registered in Zug, Switzerland and is run as a non-profit.

Contributors and supporters

Machine Translate is created and edited by contributors from all over the world.

The Machine Translate Foundation is also supported by the generosity of other organizations and by people like you!

Contact

To contact us about content, you can use the normal open channels for contributing.

To contact us about the foundation and supporting the Machine Translate Foundation, you can email [email protected].


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