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~ Translation tools ~
published at fravia's searchlores in June 2000
It should not be necessary to point out how useful translation tools are for any real seeker. Addition, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Babel Fish
babelfish.altavista.com
The Web's biggest and busiest free real-time translation service, AltaVista's
Babel Fish performs about a million translations a day. The site converts
English into most major European languages, but doesn't accept text blocks
longer than 1,000 characters or Web pages with more than a measly 5K of
text.
Babylon
www.babylon.com
While 80 percent of Web content is in English, nearly 70 percent of PC
users are non-English-speaking. Israel-based Babylon helps this majority
surf. The company's free downloadable Windows dictionary will correctly
pronounce an English word and then offer to translate it into one of
10 languages - including Chinese.
e-lingo (formerly WorldBlaze)
www.e-lingo.com
e-lingo does the usual URL and text-block translation tricks, but also
sends translated email straight from its site.
FreeTranslation.com
www.freetranslation.com
FreeTranslation.com translates text documents
of up to 13,000 words - about 20 pages of a word processing file.
InterTran
www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran
InterTran is more a Web-based word-for-word
(and phrase-for-phrase) translation dictionary than a full-blown translator,
but it does work between 351 language pairs - from Brazilian Portuguese
to Welsh and everything in between. What's more, InterTran doesn't just
provide one translation - it offers the user multiple translations for
each part of speech.
Systran
www.systranet.com
The mother of all Web translation apps, Systran powers the Babel Fish,
GO Network, and Voila translators. After you enroll on Systran's own Systranet
site, it translates entire word processing files (saved in RTF, plaintext,
or HTML) without affecting their original formatting. The site lets you
choose one of 20 specialized dictionaries - legal, for example, or automotive
- to use in translating your text.
TransBot
www.transbot.com
TransBot, still in beta, doesn't translate entire sentences, but rather
targets individual words on a Web page. Select a URL, and the page is fed
through the TransBot reader. The first letter of every word will appear
as a hyperlink: Click the letter and a little box will appear with the
translated word.
Translation Dictionary
www.evolutionary.net/dict-info.htm
This shareware translates English words and phrases for the Palm and Windows
CE platforms. Language modules vary in size from 1,800 to 19,000 entries.
(Many languages are supported, including Slovak and Esperanto.)
Translator Online
www.pinksoftware.com/trans
South Africa-based Pink Software will translate text samples from English
to Afrikaans or Zulu, and from Afrikaans, Tswana, or Swahili to English.
Voila Translate
www.voila.com/services/translate
Voila isn't a translation site per se, but a multilanguage portal from
France Telecom. Though it does pretty much everything AltaVista's Babel
Fish can, its indexed European content makes Voila
a good first stop before flying overseas.
Machine Translation R&D Worldwide
AT&T Labs
www.research.att.com
Dragon Systems
www.dragonsys.com
IBM
www.research.ibm.com/hlt
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
www.isi.edu
Integrated Wave Technologies
www.i-w-t.com
Laboratory for Applied Research in Computational Linguistics, Université
de Montréal
www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca/Accueil.en.html
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
www.lti.cs.cmu.edu
Natural Language Laboratory, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
www.cs.sfu.ca/research/groups/NLL
Spoken Language Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls
SRI
www.cam.sri.com/tr
Europe
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
www.dfki.uni-sb.de
Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
proling.iitp.ru/index_e.html
Lernout & Hauspie
www.lhsl.com
Promt
www1.promt.ru/eng
Systran Software
www.systransoft.com
Asia
NTT
www.kecl.ntt.co.jp
Spoken Language Processing Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research
www.itl.atr.co.jp
Universal Networking Language Center, United Nations University
www.unl.ias.unu.edu
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