Report on the use of Tungutorg the first year

(March 29, 2008 – March 31, 2009)



The report is also available as a Word document or PDF

Tungutorg’s webserver was opened for general access, free of charge, on the Internet March 29, 2008 at a presentation lecture given by Stefán Briem in the Nordic House in Reykjavik. Tungutorg has been running since then almost uninterruptedly all the time, except for 12 whole days, March 11 – March 23, 2009 when it was out of function due to machine failure. An overview of the use of Tungutorg is here shown in five tables.

Tungutorg is found at http://www.tungutorg.is



Table 1. Number of jobs (translation and tagging) and average time per job


Tungutorg has during this first year delivered to users machine translations of four kinds, besides tagging of Icelandic text. In all this makes five different types of job.


type of job

number of jobs

percentage

average time (s)

English => Icelandic

131779

50.0 %

1.069

Icelandic => English

85918

32.6 %

3.596

Icelandic => Danish

32951

12.5 %

3.194

Icelandic text => tags

12001

4.5 %

2.158

Esperanto => Icelandic

1082

0.4 %

0.617

total

263731

100.0 %

2.205



Table 2. Use of Tungutorg, given as number of jobs, distributed after months

year

month

number of jobs

daily average

2008

April

16248

542

2008

May

11679

377

2008

June

10169

339

2008

July

4751

258

2008

August

7834

253

2008

September

20277

676

2008

October

27764

896

2008

November

31873

1062

2008

December

25990

838

2009

January

37725

1217

2009

February

42950

1534

2009

March

24091

1268




Table 3. Number of jobs in the different countries/areas


According to IP addresses, the users of Tungutorg in this first year are distributed over 69 countries (or areas) in five continents.


country/area

number

Iceland

241731

United States (USA)

4973

United Kingdom (GB)

3725

European Union, location

3104

Denmark

2456

Norway

967

Sweden

900

Hungary

826

Spain

453

Viet Nam

451

Canada

451

South Korea

448

Netherlands

388

Belgium

266

India

202

Brazil

189

Thailand

175

Australia

159

Chile

155

Japan

147

Finland

135

China

131

Mexico

116

Senegal

109

Germany

106

United Arab Emirates

95

France

95

Lithuania

92

Switzerland

92

Poland

85

Italy

74

Russia

74

Ireland

72

Ukrania

37

Turkey

36


country/area

number

Austria

29

Latvia

20

New Zealand

17

Portugal

15

Faroe Islands

14

Israel

11

Argentina

10

Venezuela

9

Luxembourg

8

Nepal

8

Peru

8

Slovakia

7

Slovenia

6

Trinidad and Tobago

5

Malaysia

5

Romania

5

Liechtenstein

4

Hong Kong

4

Estonia

3

Moldova

3

Bulgaria

3

Belorus

3

Czech Republic

3

Ghana

2

Saudi-Arabia

2

Costa Rica

2

Cambodia

2

Ecuador

2

Taiwan

1

Colombia

1

Kenya

1

Kyrgyzstan

1

Singapore

1

Kuwait

1



Table 4. Number of jobs in 40 countries/areas with largest activity, after job types.


country/area

Eng => Ice

Ice => Eng

Ice => Dan

Esp => Ice

tagging

total

Iceland

125854

78529

28346

1043

7959

241731

United States

931

1066

28

6

2942

4973

United Kingdom

440

711

2544

4

26

3725

European Union, loc.

1095

1469

520

3

17

3104

Denmark

762

745

923

3

23

2456

Norway

312

291

358


6

967

Sweden

248

478

161

4

9

900

Hungary

319

500

2


5

826

Spain

258

123

12

3

57

453

Viet Nam




451

451

Canada

163

281

1

1

5

451

South Korea

448





448

Netherlands

64

317

1

2

4

388

Belgium

77

185

4



266

India

20

180


1

1

202

Brazil

61

61



67

189

Thailand

55

59



61

175

Australia

38

119


1

1

159

Chile

57

92


3

3

155

Japan

35

104

5


3

147

Finland

69

48

17


1

134

China

2



1

128

131

Mexico


5



111

116

Senegal

70

39




109

Germany

55

32



19

106

France

25

55


2

13

95

United Arab Emirates

3

90

1


1

95

Lithuania

7

85




92

Switzerland

49

29

14



92

Poland

21

20



44

85

Italy

26

46

1


1

74

Russia

64



2

8

74

Ireland

15

56

1



71

Ukrania

37





37

Turkey

26

10




36

Austria

8

19

2



29

Latvia

11

6



3

20

New Zealand

4

13




17

Portugal

5

10




15

Faroe Islands

5

2

6


1

14


Table 5. Number of jobs after number of words in source text and job type


number of words

Eng => Ice

Ice => Eng

Ice => Dan

Esp => Ice

tagging

1

59688

28672

14809

441

8330

2

11908

7885

2693

84

262

3

6425

6799

2087

152

301

4

4937

5586

1733

64

431

5

3781

4415

1395

42

650

6

3245

3536

1105

33

763

7

2658

2924

872

15

493

8

2316

2400

709

20

267

9

1939

1931

575

15

97

10

1742

1604

483

8

25

11– 20

10528

8330

2416

66

115

21– 30

4975

3106

1046

28

40

31– 40

2671

1656

606

17

24

41– 50

1811

1180

462

14

18

51–100

5347

3197

1150

52

61

101–150

2841

1370

427

13

35

151–200

1883

766

188

8

14

201–250

1312

367

92

6

12

251–300

990

138

59

2

6

> 300

521

36

27

0

1

highest number

430

339

354

272

309



Reykjavik, April 1, 2009


Stefán Briem

stbr@simnet.is