A new website hopes that the idea of removing the barrier of language by allowing a person to write in Arabic it is translated into English, or the other way around, will help enhance diplomacy of the citizens in the West and the Middle East. Its goal is to reduce the tensions between the two cultures.
The website named Meedan allows users to post comments and stories in Arabic and have them translated into English automatically, or to do just the opposite. With this website, people won’t have to share a common language in order to have an online discussion in near real time. It can be considered a social network that is filled with people who don’t know each other but want to have a conversation.
The website is effectively bilingual that has volunteer editors conducting the translations after the fact. These machine translations are quite good, but they still have difficulties in handling comments. The website also uses open source to help the state of the art of translation to move forward.
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