<s>
Tatoeba	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	O
collection	O
of	O
example	O
sentences	O
with	O
translations	O
geared	O
towards	O
foreign	O
language	O
learners	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
name	O
comes	O
from	O
the	O
Japanese	O
phrase	O
"	O
tatoeba	B-Application
"	O
(	O
)	O
,	O
meaning	O
"	O
for	O
example	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
and	O
maintained	O
by	O
a	O
community	O
of	O
volunteers	O
through	O
a	O
model	O
of	O
open	B-Application
collaboration	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
hosted	O
by	O
Association	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
,	O
a	O
French	O
non-profit	O
organization	O
funded	O
through	O
donations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
November	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
has	O
over	O
10,800,000	O
sentences	O
in	O
420	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
November	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Graph	O
lists	O
over	O
21,800,000	O
links	O
between	O
sentences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2006	O
,	O
Trang	O
Ho	O
was	O
frustrated	O
that	O
unlike	O
some	O
of	O
their	O
Japanese	O
counterparts	O
,	O
German	O
bilingual	O
dictionaries	O
did	O
n't	O
feature	O
full-text	B-Application
search	I-Application
of	O
usage	O
examples	O
with	O
translations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
led	O
her	O
to	O
imagine	O
her	O
ideal	O
dictionary	O
and	O
to	O
build	O
a	O
prototype	O
hosted	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
under	O
the	O
name	O
"	O
multilangdict.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
She	O
rebuilt	O
the	O
project	O
from	O
scratch	O
twice	O
and	O
rebranded	O
it	O
as	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2007	O
,	O
about	O
150,000	O
English-Japanese	O
sentence	O
pairs	O
from	O
the	O
Tanaka	O
Corpus	O
—	O
a	O
public-domain	O
compilation	O
released	O
in	O
2001	O
by	O
Hyogo	O
University	O
professor	O
Yasuhito	O
Tanaka	O
and	O
maintained	O
by	O
Jim	O
Breen	O
and	O
Paul	O
Blay	O
—	O
were	O
imported	O
into	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2008	O
,	O
Trang	O
Ho	O
released	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
current	O
codebase	O
built	O
around	O
a	O
more	O
flexible	O
data	B-Application
model	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
month	O
,	O
the	O
website	O
moved	O
to	O
the	O
tatoeba.org	B-Application
domain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Over	O
the	O
2009-2010	O
academic	O
year	O
,	O
Allan	O
Simon	O
—	O
then	O
a	O
student	O
at	O
SUPINFO	O
—	O
became	O
a	O
core	O
developer	O
of	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Together	O
with	O
Trang	O
Ho	O
and	O
other	O
young	O
developers	O
,	O
they	O
made	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
more	O
social	O
:	O
sentence	O
lists	O
,	O
user	O
profiles	O
,	O
private	O
messaging	O
,	O
and	O
Facebook-inspired	O
Wall	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2010	O
,	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
passed	O
the	O
600,000	O
sentences	O
mark	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
mentored	O
students	O
at	O
the	O
Google	B-Application
Summer	I-Application
of	I-Application
Code	I-Application
2014	I-Application
and	O
added	O
features	O
to	O
improve	O
corpus	O
quality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Over	O
the	O
2018-2020	O
period	O
,	O
support	O
from	O
the	B-Operating_System
Mozilla	I-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Common	B-General_Concept
Voice	I-General_Concept
project	O
allowed	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
to	O
make	O
its	O
platform	O
more	O
open	O
and	O
user-friendly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
sentence	O
in	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
is	O
displayed	O
next	O
to	O
its	O
likely	O
translations	O
in	O
other	O
languages	O
;	O
translations	O
and	O
"	O
translations	O
of	O
translations	O
"	O
are	O
differentiated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sentences	O
are	O
tagged	B-General_Concept
for	O
content	O
such	O
as	O
subject	O
matter	O
,	O
dialect	O
,	O
or	O
vulgarity	O
;	O
they	O
also	O
each	O
have	O
individual	O
comment	O
threads	O
to	O
facilitate	O
feedback	O
and	O
corrections	O
from	O
other	O
users	O
and	O
cultural	O
notes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sentences	O
can	O
be	O
browsed	O
by	O
language	O
,	O
tag	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
other	O
criteria	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Advanced	O
contributors	O
,	O
a	O
rank	O
above	O
ordinary	O
contributors	O
,	O
can	O
tag	B-General_Concept
,	O
link	O
,	O
and	O
unlink	O
sentences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tatoeba	B-Application
received	O
a	O
grant	O
from	O
Mozilla	B-Operating_System
Drumbeat	O
in	O
December	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
work	O
on	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
infrastructure	O
was	O
sponsored	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
Summer	I-Application
of	I-Application
Code	I-Application
,	O
2014	O
edition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2018	O
they	O
received	O
a	O
$	O
25,000	O
Mozilla	B-Operating_System
Open	O
Source	O
Support	O
(	O
MOSS	O
)	O
program	O
grant	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2019	O
they	O
received	O
a	O
$	O
15,000	O
Mozilla	B-Operating_System
Open	O
Source	O
Support	O
(	O
MOSS	O
)	O
program	O
grant	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
default	O
,	O
the	O
sentences	O
of	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
are	O
published	O
under	O
a	O
Creative	O
Commons	O
Attribution	O
2.0	O
license	O
,	O
freeing	O
it	O
for	O
academic	O
and	O
other	O
use	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visitors	O
can	O
download	O
tab-delimited	O
sentence	O
pairs	O
ready	O
for	O
import	O
into	O
Anki	B-Application
and	O
similar	O
Spaced	O
Repetition	O
Software	O
at	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
website	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tatoeba	B-Application
sentences	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
build	O
lexicographic	O
references	O
for	O
language	O
learners	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
JMdict	O
Japanese-English	O
dictionary	O
selects	O
its	O
example	O
sentences	O
from	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenRussian	O
is	O
a	O
free	O
Russian	O
dictionary	O
built	O
primarily	O
from	O
the	O
content	O
of	O
Wiktionary	O
and	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GoodExample	O
tries	O
to	O
automatically	O
extract	O
a	O
diverse	O
set	O
of	O
high-quality	O
example	O
sentences	O
from	O
the	O
English	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tatoeba	B-Application
datasets	O
can	O
power	O
incidental	O
learning	O
experiences	O
that	O
blend	O
the	O
acquisition	O
of	O
a	O
foreign	O
language	O
with	O
the	O
user	O
's	O
everyday	O
activities	O
like	O
web	O
browsing	O
or	O
book	O
reading	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
team	O
at	O
MIT	O
Media	O
Lab	O
used	O
example	O
sentences	O
from	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
in	O
WordSense	O
,	O
a	O
mixed	B-General_Concept
reality	I-General_Concept
platform	O
that	O
enables	O
"	O
serendipitous	O
language	O
learning	O
in	O
the	O
wild.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
More	O
recently	O
,	O
Japanese	O
researchers	O
implemented	O
a	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
search	O
feature	O
in	O
an	O
integrated	O
writing	O
assistance	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Reverso	O
uses	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
parallel	O
corpora	O
in	O
its	O
bilingual	O
concordancer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Clozemaster	O
is	O
a	O
language	O
self-study	O
program	O
that	O
generates	O
gamified	O
cloze	O
tests	O
from	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
sentence	O
pairs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
Anki	B-Application
users	O
share	O
flashcards	O
that	O
were	O
created	O
using	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
language	O
digital	O
activists	O
contribute	O
to	O
open	B-Application
collaborative	I-Application
projects	I-Application
like	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
,	O
Wikipedia	O
,	O
and	O
Common	B-General_Concept
Voice	I-General_Concept
to	O
promote	O
their	O
minority	O
language	O
in	O
digital	O
spaces	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Regional	O
languages	O
like	O
Kabyle	O
,	O
Catalan	O
,	O
or	O
Basque	O
can	O
register	O
more	O
than	O
a	O
hundred	O
members	O
on	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Selected	O
content	O
from	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
in	O
Esperanto	O
is	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
multilingual	O
DVD	O
Esperanto	O
Elektronike	O
published	O
by	O
E	O
@I	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
November	O
2022	O
,	O
Esperanto	O
is	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
's	O
fifth	O
pivot	O
language	O
,	O
with	O
over	O
330,000	O
sentences	O
translated	O
into	O
at	O
least	O
two	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
2008	O
to	O
2011	O
,	O
Francis	O
Bond	O
used	O
the	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
Corpus	O
for	O
his	O
research	O
on	O
the	O
Japanese	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2013	O
,	O
Jörg	O
Tiedemann	O
has	O
been	O
spreading	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
parallel	O
corpora	O
more	O
widely	O
in	O
the	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
community	O
by	O
sharing	O
them	O
on	O
the	O
OPUS	O
repository	O
and	O
organizing	O
the	O
"	O
TatoebaTranslationChallenge	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
rise	O
of	O
deep	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
,	O
researchers	O
increasingly	O
use	O
Tatoeba	B-Application
's	O
data	O
sets	O
to	O
train	O
and	O
evaluate	O
their	O
massively	O
multilingual	O
models	O
in	O
tasks	O
like	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
language	B-General_Concept
identification	I-General_Concept
,	O
semantic	O
search	O
,	O
and	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
.	O
</s>
